Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWINEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINThe purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINPeople 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.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINThere are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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.
JAMES BALDWINNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWINAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWIN