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Quotes by James A. Baldwin

Ive always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

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 youre white - subjugation if youre black.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.