Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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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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