James A. Baldwin Quotes

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James A. Baldwin

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Important
  • Rules

• The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Silent
  • Injustice
  • Racial

• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Great
  • Red
  • Wine

• My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Work
  • True
  • Style

• I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Relax

• You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Anchormen shouldn't cry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Cry

• From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Men
  • Women
  • Selfishness

• The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Question
  • Understanding
  • Humble

• I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations - to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• Jesus Pietro was worried. The Sons of Earth, if they got this far, would go straight to the vivarium to free their compatriots. But if Matthew Keller was his own agent... If the ghost of Alpha Plateau was not a rebel, but a thing with its own unpredictable purpose... Jesus Pietro worried.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Purpose

• «Exporting is positive because you sell what you produce.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Positive

• Absolutely. Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight - and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Question
  • Gay

• 'I am the King.' Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones - scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago - was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • Deep
  • King

• Thus the Koran, in this matter of slavery, is the enemy of mankind ... While the prescriptions by the Prophet regarding the just and humane treatment of slaves contained in the Koran are praiseworthy, there is nothing whatever in Islam that lends support to the abolition of this curse. (p. 228)

  

  Babasaheb
  • Support
  • Enemy
  • Slavery

• It's too late for remorse, but the old ones always regret for something

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Regret
  • Old
  • Late

• When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Action
  • Grandpa

• These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • People
  • Today
  • Song

• Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

  

  James A. Baldwin