For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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