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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.

James A. Baldwin

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You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers - to say nothing of one's children - to live according to the world's definitions: one must find a way, perpetually, to be stronger and better than that.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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