Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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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.
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