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James A. Baldwin Quotes: In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
         

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.


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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.

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.



Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.



The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.


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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.



If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.



You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.



Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.



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The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.





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That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

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