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James Baldwin10 quotes
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. — James Baldwin · 1961Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. — James Baldwin · 1961Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models. — James Baldwin · 1960Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James Baldwin · 1960It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6, or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you. — James Baldwin · 1965My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart. — James Baldwin · 1955All 10 quotes →