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 BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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