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.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make 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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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