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.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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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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