James Baldwin

Puzzles

• The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the ___.
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• Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely ___ it is to be poor.
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• The future is like ___ – everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to ___ them.
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• Not everything that is ___ can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is ___.
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• People are ___ in history and history is ___ in them.
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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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• One can only ___ in others what one can ___ in oneself.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to James Baldwin?

  • → Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
  • → The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
  • → Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
  • → One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to James Baldwin.

  • → Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
  • → Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
  • → The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
  • → I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to James Baldwin.

  • → A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.
  • → The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
  • → One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value.
  • → Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to James Baldwin. Which one?

  • → The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.
  • → Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
  • → By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
  • → When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
  
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