« All World Quotes · James A. Baldwin's Page
World Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
- You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long…
- Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it…
- 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…
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen…
- 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...…
- 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.…
- Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now,…
- It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
- The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
- 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…
- It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
- The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.
- The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself…
- The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.
- 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…
- This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.
- The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't…
- 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,…
- You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach