"But, when the chips are down, its better……" — James A. Baldwin
"But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love."
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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin has 339 quotes on this site.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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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…
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
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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…
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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
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More Ashamed Quotes
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is…
— Richard Bach
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough.…
— Mary J. Blige
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer…
— John Abbott
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
— Emily Blunt
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be…
— Tony Campolo
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take…
— Louie Anderson
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