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Something Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
- There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and…
- When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you…
- 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…
- Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
- 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,…
- When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.
- All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,…
- Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
- Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
- Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can…
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