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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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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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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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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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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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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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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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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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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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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