True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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 think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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