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James A. Baldwin has 335 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present…
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
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The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.
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