We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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