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"It was such a turning point to find that I had a talent and I had something to contribute, somewhere."
"Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent."
"If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues."
"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!"
"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
"The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something."
Explore more quotes by James A. Baldwin
"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
"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."
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."
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