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.
JAMES BALDWINConfusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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