Tag: James Baldwin
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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 Baldwin
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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
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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 Baldwin
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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin
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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
James Baldwin
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James Baldwin
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
James Baldwin
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James Baldwin