Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINYou were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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