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First Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
- 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,…
- When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I…
- It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
- To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life…
- 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,…
- Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can…
- I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen…
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