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James A. Baldwin

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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Country Discovery People Travel
And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.
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Sky Trouble World
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
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
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
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.
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Children Pay Profit
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
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
A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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Balance Men Weight
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
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.
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Determination Lessons Mean
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.
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Earth Life Weapons
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

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