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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.


James A. Garfield

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JAMES A. BALDWIN There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the m...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusias...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immu...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once h...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
JAMES A. BALDWIN People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world...
JAMES A. BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES A. BALDWIN Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES A. BALDWIN You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the w...
JAMES A. BALDWIN The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES A. BALDWIN If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU