00:00Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
00:06James Baldwin
00:10To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage
00:15almost all the time.
00:18James Baldwin
00:21Know from whence you came
00:24If you know from whence you came, there are no limitations to where you can go.
00:30James Baldwin
00:34Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
00:38Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up.
00:43James Baldwin
00:47It is not a question of wanting to believe, but of wanting to see.
00:52James Baldwin
00:56The American dream is a very good thing, but I've had to discover that the black American has been excluded
01:03from it.
01:04James Baldwin
01:08Our greatest fear is not of the unknown, but of ourselves.
01:12James Baldwin
01:16Freedom is not something that anybody gives you.
01:20Freedom is something that you take.
01:24James Baldwin
01:28I imagine one of the reasons people cling to hate is that they are afraid to love.
01:33James Baldwin
01:37Anyone who has ever struggled with conformity knows that the great force of history comes pushing down on us all.
01:45James Baldwin
01:49The paradox of education is that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to sense the absurdity of some
01:56insofar as one's life is lived within the absurd.
01:59James Baldwin
02:03I can't believe that anyone can really be happy without being able to be true to himself.
02:10James Baldwin
02:13It is the surest absurdity to try to think of oneself as an exception to the human race.
02:20James Baldwin
02:24The great force of history comes pushing down on us all.
02:28James Baldwin
02:32The price of the king's English is the silence of the natives.
02:37James Baldwin
02:41Children, I have learned, are not a race.
02:44They are the human race.
02:47James Baldwin
02:51If we are to survive, we must be able to imagine ourselves in a new light.
02:57James Baldwin
03:01It is only when we face the truth about ourselves, no matter how painful, that we can begin to heal.
03:08James Baldwin
03:12We are trapped in history, and history is trapped in us.
03:16James Baldwin
03:20I wish I had not been born, but I am glad that I was born.
03:25James Baldwin
03:26I wish I had not been born.
03:28I wish I was born here, maybe two new Kyiviony
