Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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