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Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#battle #begin #does #end #growing

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#cannot #fear #know #live #masks

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#else #exactly #like #money #nothing

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. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#did #end #failure #hide #i

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. ↗

— James Baldwin

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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. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beauty #because #here #live #lived