Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. – James Baldwin
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin
If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin