People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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