"Do I really want to be integrated into…" — James A. Baldwin
"Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?"
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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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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
— Aneurin Bevan
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On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it…
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course…
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
— Geraldine Brooks
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes…
— William S. Burroughs
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Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up…
— George H. W. Bush
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
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