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James A. Baldwin Quotes: Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.
         

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.


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I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.



Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.



Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.



The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.


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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.



If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.



You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.



Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.



The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.





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It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.



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With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.



If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.



I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.

I'm a slave for you. Dancing in the dark.



In Texas, if your name is Carlos, you're a Mexican. In Florida, you're a Cuban. In New York, you're a Puerto Rican. And I come here and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

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freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.

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Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.



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It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.




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