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.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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