| People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| Everybody's 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. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| 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. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. |
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- James Baldwin |
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| Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. |
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- 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. |
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- James Baldwin |
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