https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:11:20 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/baldwin-james/13036/ https://wist.info/baldwin-james/13036/#respond Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:24:12 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=13036 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. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free — he has set himself free — for higher dreams, for greater privileges.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) American novelist, playwright, activist
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