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James A. Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James A. Baldwin
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. Baldwin
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James A. Baldwin
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
James A. Baldwin
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James A. Baldwin
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James A. Baldwin
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James A. Baldwin
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
James A. Baldwin
That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.