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James A. Baldwin

"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."

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"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."

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"And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produce its own light, no one in this whole world knows why, and if that was possible then of course there must be other things that seemed impossible that weren't, and so anything-great and terrible-felt possible to me now."

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"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

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"When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible."

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"Anything in life is possible when you work hard to achieve it."

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"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."

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"The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon."

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"Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it."

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"Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane."

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Akiroq Brost

"And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view."

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Akiroq Brost

"Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me."

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"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours."
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"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."
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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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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
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"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."
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"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."
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"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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