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

James A. Baldwin

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Force Idea World
There is a ‘sanctity’ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Baby Funny Uplifting
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.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Case Death Institution
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
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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Bear Humiliation Male
The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Determination Lessons Mean
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational People
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
Hatred destroys the person who hates.
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Hate Hatred Person
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Artist Disturb Peace
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
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
Life is more important than art; that’s what makes art important.
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Art Important Life
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
At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
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Mean Race Taste

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