When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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