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I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck


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JAMES BALDWIN Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES BALDWIN It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel...
JAMES BALDWIN Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s...
JAMES BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si...
JAMES BALDWIN The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
JAMES BALDWIN All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit...
JAMES BALDWIN We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
JAMES BALDWIN The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
JAMES BALDWIN Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre...
JAMES BALDWIN Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu...
JAMES BALDWIN