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.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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 he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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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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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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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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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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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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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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