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Us Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state…
- 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…
- 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…
- He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform…
- Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
- Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of…
- If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God…
- A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under…
- 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…
- Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to…
- Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be…
- And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched…
- The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history…
- The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the…
- All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that…
- 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…
- Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and…
- If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God…
- It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with…
- Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to…
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz