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 BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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 are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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