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Longer Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
- What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
- I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.
- This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.
- And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched…
- White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which…
- I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't…
- But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
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- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
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- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
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- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
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