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 BALDWINWhen you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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 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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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