Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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