Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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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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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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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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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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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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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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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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