Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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 impossible is the least that one can demand.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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