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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. "
James A. Baldwin
Better
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" Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. "
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" American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. "
James A. Baldwin
American
More
Said
" Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings. "
James A. Baldwin
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" Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. "
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" I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. "
James A. Baldwin
History
Time
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" Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. "
James A. Baldwin
You
Will
Set
" Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. "
James A. Baldwin
Life
Day
Down
" People can cry much easier than they can change. "
James A. Baldwin
Than
People
Much
" Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. "
James A. Baldwin
Through
Changes
Go
" To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. "
James A. Baldwin
Act
Committed
Danger
" Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. "
James A. Baldwin
Nothing
World
Born
" I want to be an honest man and a good writer. "
James A. Baldwin
Man
Honest Man
Honest
" Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. "
James A. Baldwin
You
White
Education
" The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. "
James A. Baldwin
Glory
Attracted
Spirit
" Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. "
James A. Baldwin
Control
Language
Legend
" The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. "
James A. Baldwin
Key
Begin
Experience
" The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. "
James A. Baldwin
Lose
Man
Nothing
" 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. "
James A. Baldwin
Everything
He
Greed
" To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. "
James A. Baldwin
Think
Respect
Loving
" There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. "
James A. Baldwin
Own
Help
Man
" People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. "
James A. Baldwin
Still
Lead
Pay
" You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. "
James A. Baldwin
Know
Yourself
You
" The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. "
James A. Baldwin
Black
People
Power
" 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. "
James A. Baldwin
You
Act
Action
" 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. "
James A. Baldwin
Son
Earth
Father
" No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. "
James A. Baldwin
People
Heavy
Culture
" Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. "
James A. Baldwin
Poverty
How
Expensive
" I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. "
James A. Baldwin
You
Positive
Negative
" The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. "
James A. Baldwin
Knowledge
Calling
Ugly
" The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. "
James A. Baldwin
Black
Man
Power