For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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