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James A Baldwin Quotes
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. - James A Baldwin Quotes
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Education is indoctrination if youre white - subjugation if youre black. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Everybodys journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Fires cant be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. - James A Baldwin Quotes
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. - James A Baldwin Quotes
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 A Baldwin Quotes
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. - James A Baldwin Quotes
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. - James A Baldwin Quotes
I want to be an honest man and a good writer. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Ive always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. - James A Baldwin Quotes
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. - James A Baldwin Quotes
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. - James A Baldwin Quotes
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. - James A Baldwin Quotes
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. - James A Baldwin Quotes
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 A Baldwin Quotes
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 A Baldwin Quotes
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? - James A Baldwin Quotes
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did. - James A Baldwin Quotes
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. - James A Baldwin Quotes
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. - James A Baldwin Quotes
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. - James A Baldwin Quotes
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