James Baldwin Quotes
"The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.""You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.""The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world.""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.""The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.""Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.""The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.""If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person ""Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition ""People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become ""Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor ""Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch ""The interior life is a real life and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world ""Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does ""You have to excavate your own identity and where it is you've come from to be able to violent history ""To be in a rage almost all the time means that you are constantly bombarded with things that unsettle you ""Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours""True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life""The most dangerous man is the one who feels worthless""It is not a hyperbole to say that the poor are enslaved by their poverty and the middle classes that they have bought into a myth about themselves"
