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 BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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History 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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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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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 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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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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