Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
¶ (Attributed)
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) American author [James Arthur Baldwin]
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
¶ Esquire, "The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" (1960)
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.
¶ New York Times, "Every Good-Bye Ain’t Gone" (19 Dec. 1977)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
¶ Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
¶ Nobody Knows My Name, Introduction (1961)
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
¶ Nobody Knows My Name, ch. 13 (1961)
I imagine that the reason that people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they are afraid that if they let go of the hate, they will have to deal with pain.
¶ Notes of a Native Son (1955)
I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
¶ Notes of a Native Son (1955)
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
¶ The Fire Next Time, "My Dungeon Shook" (1963)
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
¶ The Price of the Ticket, "No Name in the Street" (1972)
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