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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

James A. Baldwin

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
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
Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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Hate Hatred Person
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
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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Men Myth Real Superiority White
There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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Baby Funny Uplifting
Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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Art Important Life
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
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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Goal Want Writing
It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Country Education Independent
If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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Life Thinking Trying
Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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Answer Heart Question
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 must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Done May People Spiritual
The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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Determination Lessons Mean
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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People Responsibility Writing

… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

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