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 BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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