11 Quotes by James Baldwin about Inspirational
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For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
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ou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.
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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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I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...
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The people did not go away, of course; once a people arise, they never go away (a fact which should be included in the Marine handbook).
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