The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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