There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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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.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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