The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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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.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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