For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
JAMES A. BALDWINYou write in order to change the world.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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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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Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you’re afraid of the other side of the coin — to love and be loved.
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If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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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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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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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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When the South has trouble with its Negroes – when the Negroes refuse to remain in their “place” – it blames “outside agitators” and “Northern interference.” When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.
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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
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