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Joyce Piert

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Joyce’s Quotes

“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: being-present, life, mindfulness, sensuality

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“how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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“Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: life, love, racism

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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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