James Baldwin Quotes

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

Topics

LoveWorldAmericaCountryRight

Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.

Joe R. Lansdale

AdventureMeActionRiceSensePace

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

Joan Jett

MyselfMeYearNewShavingHead

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

Jermaine Dupri

YouKnowNowNeverGoing

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.

John Crowley

CompassionWorldThinkKnowLiving

Most Americans know we are in a mess, and as they look at Donald Trump, they believe he is the one leader who can reverse the downward death spiral of this nation we love so dearly.

Robert Jeffress

LoveLeaderDeathBelieveLookKnow

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

YouOverStartingStarting Over

No matter what your age, gender, politics, nationality, social or financial standing, every single person inhabiting the planet Earth has the same reaction to him: 'Holy crap, Buzz Aldrin, you went to the moon!'

Jeanne Marie Laskas

AgePoliticsMoonFinancialYou

I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.

Metro Boomin

MomUpSt. LouisJustLouisGrew

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Steve Jobs

SayingThinkingYouWrongToo Much

I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

Sigourney Weaver

LoveFunPeopleCoolThinkYoung

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

Moby

MusicPeoplePossiblePointGetFar

I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!

JoJo Siwa

GoodDanceSpeakYouWellSing

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