James Baldwin on business
James Baldwin99 quotes“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.”
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Artists are here to disturb the peace.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin People can cry much easier than they can change.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin 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.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin The 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.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin
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AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
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