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James Baldwin Quotes: Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.
         

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.


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It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.



I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.



Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.



There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.



The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.



It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.



Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be



People can cry much easier than they can change.

People can cry much easier than they can change.




Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.





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I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.



We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.

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History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.



Whether it's good talk or bad talk about me, as long as your talking and making me the center of your world, I win.

Whether it's good talk or bad talk about me, as long as your talking and making me the center of your world, I win.



Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.



If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

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The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

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We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.



As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].

As long as you focus on your strengths and remain natural, then you come off natural [in your work].




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