"Unless a writer is extremely old when he……" — James A. Baldwin
"Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success."
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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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Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that…
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A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.
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With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it…
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you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well,…
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Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts…
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For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light…
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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