James A. Baldwin Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
James A. Baldwin quotes and sayings page 4 (author). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 59 we have.
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
“The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.”
“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.”
“It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
“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.”
“No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
“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.”
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