Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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