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James A. Baldwin

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

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"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."
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"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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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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"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."
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