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James A. Baldwin has 335 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they…
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters…
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,…
— Humphry Davy
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like…
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Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.
— Ciaran Carson
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When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding…
— James A. Baldwin
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One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which…
— Rachel Cusk
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I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
— Rob Sheffield
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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a…
— Salman Rushdie
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