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Way 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…
- An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
- The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.
- 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…
- If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real…
- You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world...…
- To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.
- 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…
- A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
- There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous…
- People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight…
- You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can…
- People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves…
- Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.
- It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of…
- 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…
- I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't…
- how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they…
- You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you…
- I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument,…
- 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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