The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
James A. Baldwin
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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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.
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.
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.
The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
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