Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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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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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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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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