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

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

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Believe, I Can

"A Mother’s Story: It Is Not What We Say to Black Boys and Men, It Is What We Do to Them" by Laura W. Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Change, Leadership

"As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

"Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Black, Poverty

Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Knows, Ifs

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Freedom, Government

Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel"

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Life, War

"Breaking Into James Baldwin's House" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.newyorker.com. October 28, 2015.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Success, Broken Heart

"James Baldwin's much anticipated new novel - archive" by Hugh Hebert, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2016.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Able, Dies

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Change, Karma

"No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Shoes

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James A. Baldwin

Inspirational, Faithful, Excess

"Stranger in the Village", Harper's, October 1953.