James Baldwin Quotes
"Whoever debases others is debasing himself""People can cry much easier than they can change""It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have""Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be""You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you""The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side""Artists are here to disturb the peace""To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time""The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution""The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it""Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law""The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions""It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind""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""I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do""People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them""The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose""Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them""Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within""Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"
