American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWINEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Those 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.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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