Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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