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Letter "J" » James Arthur Baldwin Quotes
«Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?»
«Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
expensive, extremely, poverty, struggled
«Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Talent
| Keywords:
discipline, endurance, luck, talent, usual
«The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Black man, definitions, refuses, The White, threatened, white
«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.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
insist
«Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ember, embers, fires, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, spiritless, stirred, tasks
«Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.»
«To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
conquered, defend, ensure, ensures, ensuring, faced
«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.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
appalling, greed, practically
«The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
asks, illuminate, illuminating
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