Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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