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 BALDWINHistory is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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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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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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 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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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