Quote by James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be ch

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by 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

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Society
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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

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America
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Experience
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

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Action

Action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez

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Action

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. – Arabian Proverb

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Action

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. – Edmund Burke

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Action

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In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. – Tony Garza

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Friendship

For one seldom hears a genuine laugh nowadays, and much of the phraseology of laughter is a mere fashion of speech. There are many people whose sides have never ached from over-indulgence in the outward expression of mirth…. With some persons a wheeze or a chuckle is the utmost they can compass. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889

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Laughter

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring. – Tim Roth

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famous

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. – Jennifer M. Granholm

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thanksgiving