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Him Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
- He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform…
- The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen…
- Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
- 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…
- A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control…
- There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or…
- Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to…
- All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,…
- I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that…
- 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…
- 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…
- I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.
- Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes,… — Pope Francis
- Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming… — Unknown Author