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Funny Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you…
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
- One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
- A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.
- We can make America what America must become.
- I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.
- History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
- The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
- You took the best, so why not take the rest?
- Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head
- Artists are here to disturb the peace.
- Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
- You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
- If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
- For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
- 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…
- The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
- There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
More Funny Quotes
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- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- I love recording music. — J. J. Abrams
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
- I also have this incredible love for women. — Kevyn Aucoin