James Baldwin Quotes
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Quotes to Explore
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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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.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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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.
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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.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thought they had to swagger a certain way or bark at the mic, and you don't have to do that.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
