Quotes of James Baldwin

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One had the choice, either of "acting just like a nigger" or of not acting just like a nigger — and only those who have tried it know how impossible it is to tell the difference.

- James Baldwin

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“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”

- Banksy

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ You are like nobody since I love you. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ There are times in life which proves life is wife and wife is life. ”

- Fahad Basheer

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ”

- Unknown

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber