Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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