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James A. Baldwin

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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.


— James A. Baldwin


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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 pain.


— James A. Baldwin


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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


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People can cry much easier than they can change.


— James A. Baldwin


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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.


— James A. Baldwin


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


— James A. Baldwin


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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.


— James A. Baldwin


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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.


— James A. Baldwin


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


— James A. Baldwin


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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.


— James A. Baldwin


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Did you know about James A. Baldwin?

He served as the head football coach the University of Rhode Island the University of Maine Duke University Lehigh University and Wake Forest University compiling a career college football record of 41–32–14. This ranks him 13th at Lehigh in terms of total wins and eighth at Lehigh in terms of winning percentage. He also served as the head coach of Duke's basketball program in 1922 compiling a 6–12 record.

He served as the head football coach the University of Rhode Island the University of Maine Duke University Lehigh University and Wake Forest University compiling a career college football record of 41–32–14. Baldwin was also the head basketball coach at the same five schools amassing a career college basketball mark of 85–66. "Jim" Baldwin (May 26 1886 – August 2 1964) was an American football player track athlete coach of football basketball and baseball and college athletics administrator in the United States.

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