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 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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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 you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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