American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
Quotes By James A. Baldwin
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Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function...
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening each time...
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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To be sensual I think is to respect and rejoice in the force of life of...
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If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology the...
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The only thing that white people have that black people need or should want...
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to...
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It is certain in any case that ignorance allied with power is the most...
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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can...
Quotes About History
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If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I...
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For most of our history Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from...
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply...
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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades...
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one...
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History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women...
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In the history of America we've never had an energy plan. We don't even...
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic...
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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One...
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is...