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Any Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of…
- Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of…
- What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
- I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.…
- Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,…
- Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and…
- For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be…
- People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by…
- Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the…
- But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder,…
- Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
- These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low…
- The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived…
- But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as…
- Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the…
- 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…
- If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God…
- You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you…
- Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,…
- I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.
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