• Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

  Source: Nobody Knows My Name (1961)

  James Baldwin
  American writer 1924-1987
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. identity
2. breakup
3. always
4. safety

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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. by : James Baldwin

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