The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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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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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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