Quote by James Baldwin
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born,

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

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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Experience
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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James Baldwin

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Education
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When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin

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Reading
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Change
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The question, Ive come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Change

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isnt it? The more things change, the more they stay the same. – Dee Dee Myers

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Change

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it. – Marcus Aurelius

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Change

Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine. – Robert C. Gallagher

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Change

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Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein

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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. – Albert Einstein

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The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. – Bill Cosby

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