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James A. Baldwin Quotes: You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
         

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.


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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.

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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