Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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