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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

James A. Baldwin

… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Human Miracle Unprecedented
Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Answer Heart Question
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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Broken Heart Inspirational Success
The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Racism Thinking White
It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life — without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.
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Becoming Giving Heirs
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
The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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Bear Humiliation Male
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Artist Disturb Peace
A man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.
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Balance Men Weight
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Empathy Pain Thinking
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
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
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
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.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Anger Argument Rage
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

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

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