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 BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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 can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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