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The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

James A. Baldwin

The writer’s only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
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Art Order Real
Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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Art Important Life
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
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Force Idea World
Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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Answer Heart Question
At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
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Mean Race Taste
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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Bear Humiliation Male
The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
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Racism Thinking White
… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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Human Miracle Unprecedented
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational People
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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Broken Heart Inspirational Success
The purpose of education…is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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Decision Education Look
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]
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Gratitude Pain Thinking
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
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Blessing Future Time
You write in order to change the world.
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Order World Writing
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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Goal Want Writing
Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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Hate Hatred Person

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