"Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity"

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Source : "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

James A. Baldwin

#Believe Quotes #Trying Quotes #Causes Quotes

“It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?”
“Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product”

Source : Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
“So many people have tried to get happiness and serenity from outside things; it's pretty much common knowledge that is a road to nowhere. I've never heard anybody say, 'Fame made me the complete person I am.' Well, I'm sure people have said it, but nobody I respect.”
“I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow itâ€™s more interesting.”
“I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.”
“You've only got so long to live.”
“I want to do whatever I possibly can to be as good as I can be.”
“So that when you come to read the actual Bible you have a lay of the land. And you come to the Bible knowing that it's not mostly a book about you and what you're supposed to be doing. It's most of all a story. It's this wonderful love story - about a God who loves his children with a wonderful, never-stopping-never-giving-up-unbreaking-always-and-forever love.”

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