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.
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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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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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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