"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
-James A. Baldwin
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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.“
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"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks."
-James A. Baldwin
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now."
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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up."
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"Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it."
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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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