More from James Baldwin
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin 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.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Artists are here to disturb the peace.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin 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.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin 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.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin
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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
Juwairiyyah OlgarJuwairiyyah Olgar
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More on change
The Internet won’t skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.
Jake PaulJake Paul Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will RogersWill Rogers Not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.
Bryon MartinBryon Martin We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
John WoodenJohn Wooden I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
Anais NinAnais Nin You’re only one video away from going viral and changing your life.
Jake PaulJake Paul No matter how my life has changed. I keep on looking back on better days.
Post MalonePost Malone When you change the way you think and speak to yourself, you change.
Claire VinsonClaire Vinson
