"History is not a procession of illustrious people.……" — James A. Baldwin
"History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about."
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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 Anonymous Quotes
This quote is filed under Anonymous Quotes,
one of 255 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like…
— Kevin Bacon
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain…
— Anthony Bourdain
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The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
— Lenny Bruce
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Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be…
— Madonna Ciccone
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this…
— Edmond Jabes
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I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the…
— John Cheever
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and…
— Simone Weil
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I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little…
— Robert Breault
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When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining…
— Clive James
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
— Doris Lessing
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us…
— Arthur Miller
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Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.
— Robert Menzies
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