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 mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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