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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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