American - Novelist | August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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