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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

James Baldwin

The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

According Change People Person Reality World
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWIN

Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Enemy Ferocious Ignorance Justice Power
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN

Home Leave Pain Suffering
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
JAMES BALDWIN

Alive Connect People Teaching
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
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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Courage Inspirational Leave Life World
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

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