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Thinking Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a…
- Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
- I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that…
- The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did…
- When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance.…
- Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their…
- The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and…
- 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,…
- I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The…
- I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.…
- The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
- You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have…
- Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface…
- A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
- If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
- I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?
- 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, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
- If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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