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.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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