"To act is to be committed, and to……" — James A. Baldwin

"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger."

— James A. Baldwin

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339 Quotes by James A. Baldwin

James A. Baldwin has 339 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay…
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is…
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the…
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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More Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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