David Gower Quotes


Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be James Baldwin Liberty 267
For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become, James Baldwin Children 244
The relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. James Baldwin Morals 230
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. James Baldwin Inspirational 168
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. James Baldwin Innocence 146
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. James Baldwin Poor 146
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced James Baldwin Change 134
Confusion is a luxury which only the very very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore James Baldwin Youth 131
The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. James Baldwin America 124
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. James Baldwin Power 122
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. James Baldwin Respect 108
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. James Baldwin Identity 106
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin Love 106
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever. James Baldwin Anger 104
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. James Baldwin Conformity 101
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. James Baldwin Children 99
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. James Baldwin Experience 98
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. James Baldwin History 98
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. James Baldwin Education 96
The paradox of education is precisely this, that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James Baldwin Education 95
Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair. James Baldwin Experience 95
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being. James Baldwin Nakedness 95
Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. James Baldwin Humanity 92
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. James Baldwin Authors 88
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 Baldwin Father 86
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. James Baldwin Quotations 86
We do not trust educated people and rarely alas produce them for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible. James Baldwin Education 86
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. James Baldwin Truth 82
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes ones head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other peoples pain. James Baldwin Human nature 82
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Baldwin Purity 82
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. James Baldwin Anger 81
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. James Baldwin Experience 81
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. James Baldwin Uncategorized 79
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. James Baldwin Prejudice 77
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. James Baldwin Poverty 74
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. James Baldwin Art 73
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. James Baldwin Students 72
Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours. James Baldwin Desires 72
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. James Baldwin Beauty 70
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James Baldwin Education 67
The future is... black. James Baldwin Future 67
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. James Baldwin Acceptance 65
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. James Baldwin Exile 64
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. James Baldwin Art 62
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 Baldwin Change 62
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. James Baldwin Reading 61
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. James Baldwin Able 60
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 Baldwin Failure 59
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. James Baldwin History 57
The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now. James Baldwin Future 57

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