Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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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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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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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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