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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…
- For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea…
- The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — 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
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong