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James A. Baldwin

"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

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"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

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"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

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"What you are good at, you never do it free!"

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"I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much."

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"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

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"...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent..."

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"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."

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"It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think."

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"Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is."

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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
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"The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love."
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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
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