Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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