Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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