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James A. Baldwin

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Emotion Home Leave Left Universe
It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Humanity Justice Law
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
If the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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Brother Mean Reality
A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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Balance Men Weight
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Empathy Pain Thinking
You write in order to change the world.
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Order World Writing
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Country Made People Philanthropy
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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Country Discovery People Travel
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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Broken Heart Inspirational Success
Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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Art Important Life
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.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Coins Hate Mean
… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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Human Miracle Unprecedented
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Artist Disturb Peace
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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Bear Humiliation Male
One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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One Thing Writing

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