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Cannot Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
- If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,…
- We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,…
- You cannot fix what you will not face.
- The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers…
- It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point…
- 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…
- We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,…
- We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would…
- Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are.…
- It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the…
- All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that…
- The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is…
- 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…
- No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and,…
- Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
- To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.
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- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
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- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt