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.
JAMES BALDWINTo be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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