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Said 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.
- I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he…
- It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point…
- A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control…
- People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight…
- Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's…
- Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must…
- You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny,…
- The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived…
- It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the…
- 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…
- Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not…
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- 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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