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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I am not an American; I am the American.
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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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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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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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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
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There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.
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What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
