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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

James A. Baldwin

The determination to outwit one’s situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Determination Lessons Mean
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Mirror Order People
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
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
… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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Human Miracle Unprecedented
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
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Clay Crack Past
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational People
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Artist Disturb Peace
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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Broken Heart Inspirational Success
A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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Balance Men Weight
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
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
The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
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Greed Needs Writing
There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one–you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
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Fact Mean Way
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
If the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Brother Mean Reality

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