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James Baldwin quotes (18) 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 Category: Unsorted The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. James Baldwin Category: Art Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. James Baldwin Category: Potential A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James Baldwin Category: Children Be careful what you set your heart upon for it will surely be yours. James Baldwin Category: Heart Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin Category: Nothing Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity by definition is unassailable. James Baldwin Category: Pure The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. James Baldwin Category: World I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone they will be forced to deal with pain. James Baldwin Category: Hate Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. James Baldwin Category: Acceptance Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. James Baldwin Category: Crutch Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. James Baldwin Category: Ancestors The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin Category: Professions Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did. James Baldwin Category: Money People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them poisoned. James Baldwin Category: Others Hatred which could destroy so much never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law. James Baldwin Category: Destiny The future is like heaven everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now. James Baldwin Category: Future People pay for what they do and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. James Baldwin Category: Life |
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