"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world....The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way...people look at reality, then you can change it.Source: Epigraph (quoted at the opening) to Mary Pipher's excellent 2006 book, Writing to Change the World.
--James Baldwin
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Quotation of the Week: James Baldwin
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4 comments:
Love, love, love this quote. Thanks for sharing it.
I love this quote too. That's what I try to do with writing and teaching, but (potentially) writers have a bigger audience.
As usual, Baldwin gets it exactly right. Thanks for the quote, Erika.
So glad that it resonates!
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