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Them Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- 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…
- 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…
- People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
- I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The…
- Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the…
- The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and…
- Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,…
- James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in…
- People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes…
- We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to…
- I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I…
- To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life…
- Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed…
- These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low…
- It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as…
- We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine…
- A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested…
- After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love.…
- It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the…
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