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One Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced…
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
- When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that…
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
- Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will…
- 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…
- Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to 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…
- If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity…
- The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is…
- The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
- 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…
- I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
- 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…
- It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim,…
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