Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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 you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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