Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINMost 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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