James Baldwin Quotes
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James Baldwin
Quotes to Explore
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I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Jack Nicholson
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
Zara Larsson
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
Laura Harrier
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Vaclav Havel
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
Rachel Maddow
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
Garth Brooks
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
Naomi Klein
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.
James Hillman
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I'm just a pretty regular dad.
Ang Lee
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We're all about girl power and everything, but we cry sometimes, and we're softies, so we can't always be like, 'Woo, girl power. We're going to come dominate the boys, blah blah blah.' That's not always the case, which is why us girls have each other to lean on and give each other advice.
Dinah Jane
Fifth Harmony
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More young people are aware of the need for thank yous and aware of the tremendous impression they make.
Letitia Baldrige
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Computers intimidate me.
Dylan Lauren
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James Baldwin
