Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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