James Baldwin Quotes
"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind""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""The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in""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""You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read""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"