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James Arthur Baldwin Quotations

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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced.
The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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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