People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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 moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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