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His Own Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes…
- I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
- The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
- To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.
- No man is a devil in his own mind.
- 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,…
- I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument,…
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