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.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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 -
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.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWIN -
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN