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Needs Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
- The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
- The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs…
- Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that…
- If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the…
- Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of…
- The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't…
- Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
- If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer…
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