You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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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