Tag: James Baldwin
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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.
James Baldwin
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James Baldwin
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There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James Baldwin
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
James Baldwin
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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 Baldwin
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
James Baldwin
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I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
James Baldwin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
James Baldwin
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin