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Thing Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
- One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
- The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers…
- We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to…
- To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An…
- 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…
- The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
- 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…
- The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.
- But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as…
- The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is…
- One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter,…
- There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*…
- We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have…
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