People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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
-
-
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWIN -
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN -
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN -
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN -
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWIN -
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWIN