Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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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 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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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