It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The 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.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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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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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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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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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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