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Take Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
- We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through…
- We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,…
- A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.
- I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.
- 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 overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of…
- You took the best, so why not take the rest?
- I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not…
- We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,…
- I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.
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