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Which Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always…
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did…
- The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing…
- An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
- The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is…
- The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
- It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in…
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