Most 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.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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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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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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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