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 BALDWINPeople 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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