American - Novelist | August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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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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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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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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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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