Quote by James Baldwin
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but th

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

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Action
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James Baldwin

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Racism
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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Charity
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No one every listened themselves out of a job. – Calvin Coolidge

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Listening

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually. – Johann von Goethe

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Listening

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each others stories. – Rebecca Falls

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Listening

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen. – Yiddish Proverb

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Listening

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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we wont need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses dont fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. – Dwight L. Moody

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Easter

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society. – Mike Rogers

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respect

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of disinterest strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot

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