James Baldwin Quotes

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.

James Baldwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.

Jill Lepore

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All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's foreign to me. That's pretty weird.'

Ronny Chieng

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Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Ruth Hubbard

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Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

Roz Chast

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Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

Masaharu Morimoto

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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Rowan Williams

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I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

Joss Stone

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Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Diane Paulus

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I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

Dev Anand

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House Republicans are flimsier than toilet paper, except toilet paper actually has use. They're so pathetic.

Corey Stewart

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