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Simply Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by…
- 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…
- If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free.
- People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
- To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
- And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.
- An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man…
- I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I…
- In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is,…
- Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
- People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after…
- Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are.…
- 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…
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