Quote by James Baldwin
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the pe

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Society
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James Baldwin

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Education
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. – Italian Proverb

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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. – Edward Norton

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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. – Chinua Achebe

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. – Voltaire

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He has hard work who has nothing to do. – Proverb

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I dont think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. Its to do with how much anger is in you. – Amy Winehouse

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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. – Yitzhak Rabin

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