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59 quotes by James A. Baldwin

James A. "Jim" Baldwin (May 26, 1886 – August 2, 1964) was an American football player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State College—now the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina—now Duke University, Lehigh University, and Wake Forest University, compiling a career college...
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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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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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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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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... →

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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a... →

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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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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

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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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