Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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 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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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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