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Kind Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real…
- All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the…
- People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized…
- Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on…
- 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…
- All art is a kind of confession.
- People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness,…
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- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
- On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon
- He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a… — Saint Augustine
- You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle! — Dan Aykroyd