Quotes by James Baldwin
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
American writer 1924-1987
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
American writer 1924-1987
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
American writer 1924-1987
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
American writer 1924-1987
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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.
American writer 1924-1987
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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
American writer 1924-1987
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
American writer 1924-1987
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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.
American writer 1924-1987
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
American writer 1924-1987
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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
American writer 1924-1987
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