Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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