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 BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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