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Born Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- 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.
- Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state…
- Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
- To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
- Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It…
- I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The…
- Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea…
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- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you… — Richard Bach