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James A. Baldwin Quotes: The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
         

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.


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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.



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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.



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



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





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