James Baldwin Quotes

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

James Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Jocko Willink

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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

John Lasseter

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The same liberals who want to protect the constitutional right of people like Colin Kaepernick to symbolically reject America by taking a knee were the ones quick to criticize Tim Tebow for bending a knee to pray and thank God on the field.

Jeanine Pirro

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I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

Mercedes McCambridge

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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

John Steinbeck

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I loved being a redhead! I always wanted to try it. I was obsessed with Lucille Ball growing up. I really wanted to try it but I always thought that doing it would ruin my hair.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.

Robin S. Sharma

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I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

Rodney Mullen

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A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.

Jose Mujica

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Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.

Dawn Richard

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I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

Clive Cussler

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The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

William Hague

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