Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It 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.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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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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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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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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