I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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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 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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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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For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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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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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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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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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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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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