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After Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life
- The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't…
- The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
- There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after…
- People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after…
- Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.
- It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of…
- After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love.…
- It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with…
More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood