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James Baldwin

"I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter."

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"I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter."

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Donna Grant

"Immerse yourself into self-development, realization of potential and establishing yourself as real person and personality."

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Donna Grant

"I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow."

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Donna Grant

"Be the best you."

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Donna Grant

"You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever."

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Donna Grant

"You won't forget a woman like her, easily anyway. Once you cross paths with Magic it's hard to see life the same."

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Donna Grant

"Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand."

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Donna Grant

"I try to forget you more often than not but somehow my mind wanders to places my heart feels are oh so very true."

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Donna Grant

"I lost a lot of people when I found myself."

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Donna Grant

"When people attempt to morph themselves into someone they are not as a way of conforming to their view of how they should be, they quell the very parts of themselves that makes them who they need to be. If we all fell under the category of normal, how would anyone ever succeed? We would all hover in the same place forever. No one would improve. Everyone would remain idle. We may even all begin to retrogress. I believe that part of being human is to have the ability to change and improve yourself. Be who you need to be, not who you think you should be."

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Donna Grant

"I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes."

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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."

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James Baldwin
"She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away."

Romance

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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."

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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."

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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."

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James Baldwin
"Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundation."

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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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