The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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