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Happen Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
- At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
- I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
- The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't…
- Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to…
- ...in order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that…
- I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen…
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