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I have a huge issue with blackface. — Rachel Dolezal

One must say Yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found - and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is. — James Baldwin

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen? — James A. Baldwin

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. — James A. Baldwin

Our humanity is our burden, our life. We need not battle for it. We need only to do what is infinitely more difficult: that is, accept it. — James Baldwin

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. — James Baldwin

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it. — James A. Baldwin

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art — James Baldwin

I do a lot of rewriting. It's very painful. — James Baldwin

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first. — James A. Baldwin

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. — James Baldwin

I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had no meaning. — James Baldwin

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. — James A. Baldwin

If I had to give up either acting or dancing, I'd choose to keep dancing. — Cyd Charisse

Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other? — Linda Crew

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. — James Baldwin

A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named. — James Baldwin

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life — James Baldwin

I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life. — James A. Baldwin

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. — James Baldwin

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact. — Darrell Issa

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know. — James Baldwin

If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight. — Sun Tzu

And no matter what I was doing, another me sat in my belly, absolutely cold with terror over the question of my life. — James Baldwin

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. — James A. Baldwin

Whoever debases others is debasing himself. — James Baldwin

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire. — James Baldwin