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James Baldwin (1924–1987) was an American novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, social critic, and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers and authors; his work often focused on the civil rights movement and the gay liberation movement.

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FindCenter Quotes ImagePeople who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageYou 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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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhoever debases others is debasing himself.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTo 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 breaking of bread.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTo accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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