For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINYou 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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To 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.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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