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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

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
One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience.
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One Thing Writing
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Religious Use Validity
You write in order to change the world.
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Order World Writing
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
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Clay Crack Past
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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Children Education Teacher
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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Country Discovery People Travel
Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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Hate Hatred Person
The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
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Greed Needs Writing
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
I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
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Feelings People Thinking
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational People
A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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Balance Men Weight
… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Human Miracle Unprecedented
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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Case Death Institution
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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Blame Refuse Trouble

… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

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