Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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 are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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