Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

James Baldwin Quotes

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Control Language Legend Root

To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.

Jerrod Carmichael

Ego Say Ability Understood Just

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.

Work Power Walk You Artist Want

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

People Me Writing Enjoy You Know

Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.

Work Musicians Long You Want Up

For basically three years, I was doing 'Catfish' and 'We Are Your Friends' at the same time - it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you're in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.

Time Commitment Creative Doing You

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

Be Kind People Trying I Can Kind

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Leadership Live Happiness Great Man

I've always been a chameleon from book to book, like a director who does different films in the best possible way.

Tony DiTerlizzi

Best Book Way Possible Director

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

Science America Media Prosperity

When I was 6 years old, I played on a coed indoor team. We were called the Cosmos. And then, after that, when I was 7, I played on an all-girls club team.

Team Old Years Club Cosmos After

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Me Writing Violence Sin Saved

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Women Live Men Might Like Gods

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by James Baldwin