James A. Baldwin
  • People can cry much easier than they can change.

  • 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.

  • Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

  • The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

  • The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.