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Quote by James Baldwin
If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person

If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

Category:
Innocence
Author
James Baldwin
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin

Category:
Failure
Author
James Baldwin
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James Baldwin

Category:
Education
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James Baldwin
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Other Quotes from
Society
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Its very hard to imagine the phrase consumer society used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England. – Julie Burchill

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Society

Terms like that, Humane Society, are devised with people like me in mind, who dont care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. – Barbara Kingsolver

Category:
Society

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. – Marshall McLuhan

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Society

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. – Joe Biden

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Society

Random Quotes

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James Baldwin

Category:
Children

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. – Bertolt Brecht

Category:
Inventing, Inventions

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Category:
Future

Happiness? No, its not there for me. – Robert Mapplethorpe

Category:
Happiness