Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

James A. Baldwin's Popular Quotes

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

- James A. Baldwin

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

- James A. Baldwin

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

- James A. Baldwin

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

- James A. Baldwin

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

- James A. Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pai…

- James A. Baldwin

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

- James A. Baldwin

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

- James A. Baldwin

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally …

- James A. Baldwin