Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change 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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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