James A. Baldwin Quotes About Life
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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
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To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
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I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
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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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We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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