Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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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 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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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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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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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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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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