People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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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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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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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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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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