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 BALDWINConfusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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