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 BALDWINHistory is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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