Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINThose 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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