To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. - James A. Baldwin

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My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly

James A. Baldwin

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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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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Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

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To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

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