Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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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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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.
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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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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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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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