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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

James A. Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Empathy Pain Thinking
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
A devotion to humanity is… too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
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Atheism Causes Humanity
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
At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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Drunk Morning Wine
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
The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
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Racism Thinking White
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
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Change Life Needs
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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Children Pay Profit
The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
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Determination Lessons Mean
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
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
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Anger Argument Rage
A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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Balance Men Weight
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

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

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