James Baldwin on courage
James Baldwin99 quotes“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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Artists are here to disturb the peace.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin 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.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin 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.
James BaldwinJames Baldwin 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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Fred HamptonFred Hampton Be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan Doyle Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
Sun TzuSun Tzu Have the courage and strength to be yourself. Because there is no other choice. Do you have a choice of being somebody else?
Yoko OnoYoko Ono Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
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