Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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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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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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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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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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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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