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Accepting Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
- Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the…
- 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…
- In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is,…
- To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life…
- White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which…
- There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*…
More Accepting Quotes
- Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that… — Paulo Coelho
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho
- I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion. — Bill Pullman
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- John rose to his feet and apologized to Holiday. Her mom seethed. Her dad tried to talk to her seething mom. Holiday… — C.C. Hunter
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine