"To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage"
- James Baldwin
"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. 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, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society. If a society succeeds in this, that society is about to perish. The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it – at no matter what risk."
- James Baldwin
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be"
- James Baldwin
"I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind as been best at since we have heard of man."
- James Baldwin, My Dungeon Shook
Black History: Afro-Latin Americans
An Afro-Latin American is a Latin American person who is, at least in part, of African heritage or lineage.African slaves were oriignally brought to America because of the rapidly decreasing numbers of Native American laborers available for work on the…
