I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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