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Many Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
- All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not…
- Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of…
- There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous…
- There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after…
- 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,…
- It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of…
- After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love.…
- The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history…
- ...in order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that…
- Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and…
- 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…
- There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
- It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the…
More Many Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash