I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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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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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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