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"The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it." - James Baldwin
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"[Jordan Elgrably once asked James Baldwin, 'What would you say increases with knowledge?'. He answered...] You learn how little you know.'" - James Baldwin
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"[A story - with a message about the need for skepticism, careful investigation, questioning and evidence before making decisions and judgements, especially when angry or frustrated, lest silly or tragic mistakes are made:] -
Genghis Khan and His Hawk - One morning Genghis Khan, the great king and warrior, rode out into the woods to have a day's sport. Many of his friends were with him. They rode out gayly, carrying their bows and arrows. Behind them came the servants with the hounds.
It was a merry hunting party. The woods rang with their shouts and laughter. They expected to carry much game home in the evening.
On the king's wrist sat his favorite hawk, for in those days hawks were trained to hunt. At a word from their masters they would fly high up into the air, and look around for prey. If they chanced to see a deer or a rabbit, they would swoop down upon it swift as any arrow.
All day long Genghis Khan and his huntsmen rode through the woods. But they did not find as much game as they expected.
Toward evening they started for home. The king had often ridden through the woods, and he knew all the paths. So while the rest of the party took the nearest way, he went by a longer road through a valley between two mountains.
The day had been warm, and the king was very thirsty. His pet hawk left his wrist and flew away. It would be sure to find its way home.
The king rode slowly along. He had once seen a spring of clear water near this pathway. If he could only find it now! But the hot days of summer had dried up all the mountain brooks.
At last, to his joy, he saw some water trickling down over the edge of a rock. He knew that there was a spring farther up. In the wet season, a swift stream of water always poured down here; but now it came only one drop at a time.
The king leaped from his horse. He took a little silver cup from his hunting bag. He held it so as to catch the slowly falling drops.
It took a long time to fill the cup; and the king was so thirsty that he could hardly wait. At last it was nearly full. He put the cup to his lips, and was about to drink.
All at once there was a whirring sound in the air, and the cup was knocked from his hands. The water was all spilled upon the ground.
The king looked up to see who had done this thing. It was his pet hawk.
The hawk flew back and forth a few times, and then alighted among the rocks by the spring.
The king picked up the cup, and again held it to catch the trickling drops.
This time he did not wait so long. When the cup was half full, he lifted it toward his mouth. But before it had touched his lips, the hawk swooped down again, and knocked it from his hands.
And now the king began to grow angry. He tried again, and for the third time the hawk kept him from drinking.
The king was now very angry indeed.
'How do you dare to act so?' he cried. 'If I had you in my hands, I would wring your neck!'
Then he filled his cup again. But before he tried to drink, he drew his sword.
'Now, Sir Hawk,' he said, 'that is the last time.'
He had hardly spoken before the hawk swooped down and knocked the cup from his hand. But the king was looking for this. With a quick sweep of the sword he struck the bird as it passed.
The next moment the poor hawk lay bleeding and dying at its master's feet.
'That is what you get for your pains,' said Genghis Khan.
But when he looked for his cup, he found that it had fallen between two rocks, where he could not reach it.
'At any rate, I will have a drink from that spring,' he said to himself.
With that he began to climb the steep bank to the place from which the water trickled. It was hard work, and the higher he climbed, the thirstier he became.
At last he reached the place. There indeed was a pool of water; but what was that lying in the pool, and almost filling it? It was a huge, dead snake of the most poisonous kind.
The king stopped. He forgot his thirst. He thought only of the poor dead bird lying on the ground below him.
'The hawk saved my life!' he cried, 'and how did I repay him? He was my best friend, and I have killed him.'
He clambered down the bank. He took the bird up gently, and laid it in his hunting bag. Then he mounted his horse and rode swiftly home. He said to himself,
'I have learned a sad lesson today, and that is, never to do anything in anger.' " - James Baldwin
'The Book of Virtues'
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| [Quote No.5654] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. " - James Baldwin
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"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance." - James Baldwin
Paris Review Interviews II
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| [Quote No.54355] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"[A true story - with a message about persisting past failure to win eventual success:] 'Robert the Bruce (and the Spider)' -
Hundreds of years ago there was a king of Scotland and his name was Robert the Bruce. It was a good thing that he was both brave and wise, because the times in which he lived were wild and dangerous. The King of England was at war with him, and had led a great army into Scotland to drive him out of the land and to make Scotland a part of England.
Battle after battle he had fought with England. Six times Robert the Bruce had led his brave little army against his foes. Six times his men had been beaten, until finally they were driven into flight. At last the army of Scotland was entirely scattered, and the king was forced to hide in the woods and in lonely places among the mountains.
One rainy day, Robert the Bruce lay in a cave, listening to the rainfall outside the cave entrance. He was tired and felt sick at heart, ready to give up all hope. It seemed to him that there was no use for him to try to do anything more.
As he lay thinking, he noticed a spider over his head, getting ready to weave her web. He watched her as she worked slowly and with great care. Six times she tried to throw her thread from one edge of the cave wall to another. Six times her thread fell short.
'Poor thing!' said Robert the Bruce. 'You, too, know what it's like to fail six times in a row.'
But the spider did not lose hope. With still more care, she made ready to try for a seventh time. Robert the Bruce almost forgot his own troubles as he watched, fascinated. She swung herself out upon the slender line. Would she fail again? No! The thread was carried safely to the cave wall, and fastened there.
'Yes!' cried Bruce, 'I, too, will try a seventh time!'
So he arose and called his men together. He told them of his plans, and sent them out with hopeful messages to cheer the discouraged people. Soon there was an army of brave men around him. A seventh battle was fought, and this time the King of England was forced to retreat back to his own country.
It wasn't long before England recognized Scotland as an independent country with Robert the Bruce as its rightful king.
And to this very day, the victory and independence of Scotland is traced to a spider who kept trying again and again to spin her web in a cave and inspired the king of Scotland, Robert the Bruce. [Robert the Bruce, known as Robert I after becoming king of Scotland, was one of the greatest kings of Scottish history. His achievement in rallying the Scottish nation behind him in resistance to the English is all the more remarkable by his lack of resources at the time of his revolt in 1306. The revolt was defeated, Bruce's lands were confiscated and he became a fugitive. The story of his wanderings is very much embroidered with traditions and legends: the best known is the tale of his watching the spider while he was in hiding on Rathlin Island (now in Northern Ireland), and drawing inspiration from the perseverance of the spider in spinning her web. Gradually he recruited followers again, and in 1314 won at Bannockburn the greatest victory that Scotland had ever won or was to win over England. Fourteen years later Bruce secured a treaty with England recognizing the independence of Scotland and his right to the throne.]" - James Baldwin
Source: 'Bruce and the Spider,' from 'Favorite Tales of Long Ago', retold by James Baldwin (E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: New York, 1955), pp. 18-20. Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 55-6511. Adapted by Elaine Lindy ©1998-2000. All rights reserved.
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| [Quote No.30354] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead." - James Baldwin
(1924 - 1987), Black American writer, famous for books such as 'Go Tell It On The Mountain' (1953) and 'Notes Of A Native Son' (1955).
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| [Quote No.37047] Need Area: Money > General
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did." - James Baldwin
(1924 - 1987)
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"[A true story – with a message about wise disdain for riches, greed, excess, luxury, honors, etc., and instead humility and contentment from philosophy, which is the love of wisdom: ‘Alexander, The Great And] Diogenes The Wise Man’ -
At Corinth, in Greece, there lived a very wise man whose name was Diogenes. Men came from all parts of the land to see him and hear him talk.
But wise as he was, he had some very queer [unusual] ways. He did not believe that any man ought to have more things than he really needed; and he said that no man needed much. And so he did not live in a house, but slept in a tub or barrel, which he rolled about from place to place. He spent his days sitting in the sun, and saying wise things to those who were around him.
At noon one day, Diogenes was seen walking through the streets with a lighted lantern, and looking all around as if in search of something.
‘Why do you carry a lantern when the sun is shining?’ some one said.
‘I am looking for an honest man,’ answered Diogenes.
When Alexander the Great went to Corinth, all the foremost men in the city came out to see him and to praise him. But Diogenes did not come; and he was the only man for whose opinions Alexander cared.
And so, since the wise man wonld not come to see the king, the king went to see the wise man. He found Diogenes in an out-of-the-way place, lying on the ground by his tub. He was enjoying the heat and the light of the sun.
When he saw the king and a great many people coming, he sat up and looked at Alexander. Alexander greeted him and said,—
‘Diogenes, I have heard a great deal about your wisdom. Is there anything that I can do for you?’
‘Yes,’ said Diogenes. ‘You can stand a little on one side, so as not to keep the sunshine from me.’
This answer was so different from what he expected, that the king was much surprised. But it did not make him angry; it only made him admire the strange man all the more. When he turned to ride back, he said to his officers,—
‘Say what you will; if I were not Alexander, I would like to be Diogenes.’ " - James Baldwin
[http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=baldwin&book=fifty&story=Diogenes ]
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| [Quote No.8622] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was before you came in. [you can change it]" - James Baldwin
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| [Quote No.44021] Need Area: Work > Sell
"The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way...people look at reality, then you can change it." - James Baldwin
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| [Quote No.39971] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world..." - James 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 Baldwin
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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read [and speak to others and your knowledge, understanding and compassion for how life challenges everyone at different times and in different ways grows, along with your maturity and sense of self]." - James Baldwin
The author of 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'.
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| [Quote No.37048] Need Area: Friends > Love
"Love takes off masks we fear we cannot live without." - James Baldwin
(1924 - 1987)
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"The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it!" - James Baldwin
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"People who treat other people [racistly and] as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned." - James Baldwin
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"[A story - with a message about the need for skepticism, careful investigation, questioning and evidence before making decisions and judgements, especially when angry or frustrated, lest silly or tragic mistakes are made:] -
Genghis Khan and His Hawk - One morning Genghis Khan, the great king and warrior, rode out into the woods to have a day's sport. Many of his friends were with him. They rode out gayly, carrying their bows and arrows. Behind them came the servants with the hounds.
It was a merry hunting party. The woods rang with their shouts and laughter. They expected to carry much game home in the evening.
On the king's wrist sat his favorite hawk, for in those days hawks were trained to hunt. At a word from their masters they would fly high up into the air, and look around for prey. If they chanced to see a deer or a rabbit, they would swoop down upon it swift as any arrow.
All day long Genghis Khan and his huntsmen rode through the woods. But they did not find as much game as they expected.
Toward evening they started for home. The king had often ridden through the woods, and he knew all the paths. So while the rest of the party took the nearest way, he went by a longer road through a valley between two mountains.
The day had been warm, and the king was very thirsty. His pet hawk left his wrist and flew away. It would be sure to find its way home.
The king rode slowly along. He had once seen a spring of clear water near this pathway. If he could only find it now! But the hot days of summer had dried up all the mountain brooks.
At last, to his joy, he saw some water trickling down over the edge of a rock. He knew that there was a spring farther up. In the wet season, a swift stream of water always poured down here; but now it came only one drop at a time.
The king leaped from his horse. He took a little silver cup from his hunting bag. He held it so as to catch the slowly falling drops.
It took a long time to fill the cup; and the king was so thirsty that he could hardly wait. At last it was nearly full. He put the cup to his lips, and was about to drink.
All at once there was a whirring sound in the air, and the cup was knocked from his hands. The water was all spilled upon the ground.
The king looked up to see who had done this thing. It was his pet hawk.
The hawk flew back and forth a few times, and then alighted among the rocks by the spring.
The king picked up the cup, and again held it to catch the trickling drops.
This time he did not wait so long. When the cup was half full, he lifted it toward his mouth. But before it had touched his lips, the hawk swooped down again, and knocked it from his hands.
And now the king began to grow angry. He tried again, and for the third time the hawk kept him from drinking.
The king was now very angry indeed.
'How do you dare to act so?' he cried. 'If I had you in my hands, I would wring your neck!'
Then he filled his cup again. But before he tried to drink, he drew his sword.
'Now, Sir Hawk,' he said, 'that is the last time.'
He had hardly spoken before the hawk swooped down and knocked the cup from his hand. But the king was looking for this. With a quick sweep of the sword he struck the bird as it passed.
The next moment the poor hawk lay bleeding and dying at its master's feet.
'That is what you get for your pains,' said Genghis Khan.
But when he looked for his cup, he found that it had fallen between two rocks, where he could not reach it.
'At any rate, I will have a drink from that spring,' he said to himself.
With that he began to climb the steep bank to the place from which the water trickled. It was hard work, and the higher he climbed, the thirstier he became.
At last he reached the place. There indeed was a pool of water; but what was that lying in the pool, and almost filling it? It was a huge, dead snake of the most poisonous kind.
The king stopped. He forgot his thirst. He thought only of the poor dead bird lying on the ground below him.
'The hawk saved my life!' he cried, 'and how did I repay him? He was my best friend, and I have killed him.'
He clambered down the bank. He took the bird up gently, and laid it in his hunting bag. Then he mounted his horse and rode swiftly home. He said to himself,
'I have learned a sad lesson today, and that is, never to do anything in anger!' " - James Baldwin
'The Book of Virtues'
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"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]" - James Baldwin
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