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.
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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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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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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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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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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