Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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James Baldwin quoteAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James Baldwin quote For while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell. It’s the only light we’ve got in all this darkness.
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James Baldwin quoteThe price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin quote The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James Baldwin quote There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James Baldwin quote Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin quote When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
James Baldwin quote Biography
American writer
