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 BALDWINIf a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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