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 BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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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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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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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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