Quote by James Baldwin
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because t

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

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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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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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I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting. – Marc Jacobs

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Beauty

Its not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. – Euripides

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Beauty

The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home! – Meagan Good

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Beauty

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. – Walter Pater

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Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. – Llewelyn Powys

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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. – Chester Irving Barnard

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You get educated by traveling. – Solange Knowles

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This lifes dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye. – William Blake

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