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I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.


Hailey Baldwin

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JAMES BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to e...
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES BALDWIN A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES BALDWIN People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on...
JAMES BALDWIN The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other his...
JAMES BALDWIN An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wre...
JAMES BALDWIN An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience...
JAMES BALDWIN The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
STANLEY BALDWIN What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world...
JAMES BALDWIN The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the pa...
JAMES BALDWIN Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
JAMES BALDWIN So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called ...
ROGER BALDWIN For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting...
JAMES BALDWIN The future is... black.
JAMES BALDWIN Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom...
JAMES BALDWIN Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop...
JAMES BALDWIN James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no on...
JAMES BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES BALDWIN There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES BALDWIN Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
JAMES BALDWIN Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is...
JAMES BALDWIN When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES BALDWIN No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES BALDWIN No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES BALDWIN Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN