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- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. — Josephine Baker
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we… — James A. Baldwin
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin