If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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