It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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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.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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