"I met a lot of people in Europe.…" — James A. Baldwin
"I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself."
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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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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
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As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all…
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more.…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism.…
— Walter J. Phillips
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide…
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Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in…
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The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found…
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He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
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There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best…
— Edwin Paxton Hood
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Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background…
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