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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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – James Baldwin

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Immigration
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Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Experience

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee. – Jamie Foxx

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Experience

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. – Ernst Mach

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Experience

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain

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Action

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like Gone With the Wind. And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but theres something so absolutely romantic about it. – Freida Pinto

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Romantic

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur thats much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. – Chuck Palahniuk

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Hope

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. – James Agee

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Confusion