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 BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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