Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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