"Then I buckled up my shoes, and I…" — James A. Baldwin
"Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started."
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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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Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer…
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We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted…
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Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to…
— Frederic Raphael
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I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a…
— Wilfred Owen
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My knees buckled. It's the last thing I expected
— Sally Hawkins
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A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence,…
— Russell Baker
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America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our…
— Dennis Miller
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Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would…
— Edgar Guest
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Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed…
— Carl Hiaasen
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She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way…
— Nora Roberts
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It's Mari, Jack," Ken whispered, needing to say it aloud. "What?" Jack jerked around, staring at the sniper as the…
— Christine Feehan
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He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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