James A. Baldwin Quotes
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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Think and grow rich.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I have always loathed working out.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.
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There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.
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No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment.
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It's hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
