Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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