Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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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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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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