"Freaks are called freaks and are treated as……" — James A. Baldwin
"Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires."
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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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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was…
— John Owen
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No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual…
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it…
— George Bernard Shaw
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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people…
— Mandy Patinkin
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Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your…
— Jane Austen
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You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought…
— Stephen Crane
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I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you,…
— Tessa Dare
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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were…
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