Education By James Baldwin Quotes & Sayings

into the kitchen and spotted — Terri Osburn

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. — James Baldwin

It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. — James Baldwin

No' seems such a flimsy and inadequate little word to express how very little interest I have in hearing you rambling on about that particular topic. — FayJay

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us. — Pope John Paul II

Men are terrified of a woman's depth of love and the energy that moves as a woman's sexuality and emotions. And, at the same time, men want nothing more in this life than to merge completely with a woman's devotional love and wild energy. Only as a man outgrows his fear can he handle a woman's tremendous love-energy without running. And only such a man is worthy of your devotional offering in a committed intimacy. — David Deida

One of the reasons ... I think that our youth is so badly educated
and it is inconceivably badly educated
is because education demands a certain daring, a certain independence of mind. You have to teach some people to think; and in order to teach some people to think, you have to teach them to think about everything. There mustn't be something they cannot think about. If there is one thing they cannot think about, very shortly they can't think about anything. — James Baldwin

Aye, Master. Only, how do we know where that dhenrabi might take us?"
"Oh, we know that, most certainly. Why, the dhenrabi breeding beds, of course." "Oh. — Steven Erikson

It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views. — Ben Schwartz

She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. "I hope you choke on
every penny."
"Pick that up."
She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles. — John Green

And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of The Aviator it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously. — Martin Scorsese

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street. — Noel Clarke

The first thing one must want, in order to gain anything, is to be himself gaining. Don't confuse sterile wishing with true wanting. — Edna Robinson

The purpose of education ... is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions. — James A. Baldwin

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James Baldwin

I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire. — Harry S. Truman

It doesn't hurt to get more education. — Donald J. Trump

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible. — James Baldwin

A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. — William Shakespeare