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James A. Baldwin Quotes: You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
         

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.


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I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.



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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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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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To the poor memories of drunks, ' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.



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The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together.



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And for me to have my name mentioned among some of the Super Bowl MVPs that played in the Super Bowl, words can't describe it. It's totally a dream come true.



It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.



Now lemme get this straight," she said in a throaty, nasal voice. "You put the lime in the cocanut and drink 'em both up--whoa, long faces. What am I interrupting?

Now lemme get this straight," she said in a throaty, nasal voice. "You put the lime in the cocanut and drink 'em both up--whoa, long faces. What am I interrupting?



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Don’t just stand there; make something happen.



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It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.



At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.



...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.

...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.




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