When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.James A. Baldwin
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James A. Baldwin
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James A. Baldwin
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.
James A. Baldwin
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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