The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINYou don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The 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.
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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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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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