"The determination to outwit one's situation means that……" — James A. Baldwin
"The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons."
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin has 339 quotes on this site.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Francis Bacon
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
— Alfred Adler
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
— Milton Berle
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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