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 BALDWINThe world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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