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Letter "J" » James Arthur Baldwin Quotes
«A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled»
«To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.»
«The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Failure
| Keywords:
banishment, Siberian
«Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief,
Faith
| Keywords:
confronted, driven, excesses, free of, impossibility, inhuman, remaining
«I want to be an honest man and a good writer.»
«People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
cast on, floating, poisoned, surprised, waters
«Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits»
«I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than the natural state»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, convinced, impulses, natural state, The Natural
«The future is... black.»
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