James Baldwin Quotes
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
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There's nothing I'm embarrassed about.
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I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
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Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
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For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.
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Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
