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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

James A. Baldwin

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.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Earth Life Weapons
The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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Determination Lessons Mean
Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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Art Important Life
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Broken Heart Inspirational Success
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Men Myth Real Superiority White
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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Coins Hate Mean
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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Country Discovery People Travel
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
You write in order to change the world.
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Order World Writing
Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
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Answer Heart Question
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
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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Goal Want Writing
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Emotion Home Leave Left Universe
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
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 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

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