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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWIN

Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Situation Threat Victim Women
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN

Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWIN

Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deakness Deep Healing Life Walk Whistle
Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWIN

Indispensable Literature One Liner World
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWIN

Absolute Desolation Fear One Liner Splendor
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Hide Purpose

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