Quotes by James Baldwin
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
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.
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.