You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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 want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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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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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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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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