Famous James A. Baldwin Quotes

People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
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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 are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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