James Baldwin

Children have never...

Children have never...

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate...

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Words like freedom,...

Words like freedom,...

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born...

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It is only...

It is only...

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their...

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All over Harlem,...

All over Harlem,...

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand;...

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People who treat...

People who treat...

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters...

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A child cannot...

A child cannot...

A child cannot be taught by someone who despises him.

Source: In Famous Black...

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The secret lies,...

The secret lies,...

The secret lies, I think, in his intimate knowledge of the people he is addressing be they black or white, and in the...

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Where there is...

Where there is...

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Source: Nobody Knows My Name,...

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When one begins...

When one begins...

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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Rage cannot be...

Rage cannot be...

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and...

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Color is not...

Color is not...

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

Source: In...

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The reason people...

The reason people...

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be...

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No one can...

No one can...

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only...

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I must oppose...

I must oppose...

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual...

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It is a...

It is a...

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Source: The Price of the...

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Fathers and sons...

Fathers and sons...

Fathers and sons arrive at that relationship only by claiming that relationship: that is by paying for it. If the...

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True rebels, after...

True rebels, after...

True rebels, after all, are as rare as true lovers, and, in both cases, to mistake a fever for a passion can destroy...

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We cannot discuss...

We cannot discuss...

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our...

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They saw themselves...

They saw themselves...

They saw themselves as others had seen them. They had been formed by the images made of them by those who had had the...

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There are few...

There are few...

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the...

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