Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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