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 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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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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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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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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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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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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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