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 BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make 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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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