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.
JAMES BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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The 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.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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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.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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