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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

James Baldwin

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
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 BALDWIN

Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWIN

Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN

Home Leave Pain Suffering
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWIN

Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWIN

Indispensable Literature One Liner World
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beautiful History Terrible
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWIN

Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
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 BALDWIN

Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWIN

Courage Inspirational Leave Life World
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN

Book Pain Read
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
JAMES BALDWIN

Friendship Invent Love Lover Parents People Unhappiness
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWIN

Demand Hustle Impossible Inspirational One Liner
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Black Lives Matter Education White

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