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  -- James Baldwi...
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• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
  -- James Baldwi...
• The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
  -- James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name", 1961...
• Fame-induced Apathy: The attitude that no activity is worth pursuing unless one can become very famous pursuing it.
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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.
  -- James Baldwi...