Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINI often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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