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James Baldwin

"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone."

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"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone."

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Donna Grant

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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Donna Grant

"Let no such man be trusted."

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Donna Grant

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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Donna Grant

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

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Donna Grant

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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Donna Grant

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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Donna Grant

"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."

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Donna Grant

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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Donna Grant

"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."

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Donna Grant

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

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James Baldwin
"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

Beauty

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James Baldwin
"The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

Education

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James Baldwin
"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."

Man

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James Baldwin
"The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic-a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall."

Psychology

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James Baldwin
"Then the door is before him. There is darkness all around him, there is silence in him. Then the door opens and he stands alone, the whole world falling away from him. And the brief corner of the sky seems to be shrieking, though he does not hear a sound. Then the earth tilts, he is thrown forward on his face in darkness, and his journey begins."

Adventure

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James Baldwin
"Ultimately, the artist and the revolutionary function as they function, and pay whatever dues they must pay behind it because they are both possessed by a vision, and they do not so much follow this vision as find themselves driven by it. Otherwise, they could never endure, much less embrace, the lives they are compelled to lead."

Motivation

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James Baldwin
"The necessity, then, of those "lesser breeds without the law-those wogs, barbarians, niggers-is this: one must not become more free, not become more base than they: must not be used as they are used, nor yet use them as their abandonment allows one to use them: therefore, they must be civilized. But, when they are civilized, they may simply "spuriously imitate [the civilizer] back again, leaving the civilizer with no satisfaction on which to rest."

Society

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James Baldwin
"If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go."

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James Baldwin
"He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear."

Life

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James Baldwin
"Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx."

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