For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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