Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINHistory is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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