Quotes by James A. Baldwin

James A. Baldwin

… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

Humans

Miracle

Unprecedented

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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

Children

Education

Teacher

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A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

Civilization

People

Wicked

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A devotion to humanity is… too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

Atheism

Causes

Humanity

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A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

Cities

Ghetto

Way

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A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

Experience

Knows

Thinking

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A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.

Balance

Men

Weight

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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 by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.

Home

Moving

People

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A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

Real

Shifting

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A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

Artist

Assuming

Heaven

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