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Become Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- 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…
- It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
- The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is…
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen…
- If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real…
- I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can.…
- The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
- We can make America what America must become.
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
- The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
- For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
- We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would…
- There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*…
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