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Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise.
— James Baldwin
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then didwhich was to hide. — James Baldwin
Money, iit turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings if you did.
— James Baldwin
Cotton is my life.
— Billy Baldwin
I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
— Daniel Baldwin
You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That's what the old woman told me, and I listened.
— L'Poni Baldwin
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James Baldwin
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
— James A. Baldwin
It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.
— James Baldwin
Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.
— Monica Baldwin
Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.
— Stephen Baldwin
Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.
— James Baldwin
At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
— James A. Baldwin
I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
— James A. Baldwin
The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
Our own government has become our enemy.
— Chuck Baldwin
You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people.
— Stephen Baldwin
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
— James A. Baldwin
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
— James Mark Baldwin
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
— James A. Baldwin
The purpose of education ... is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
— James A. Baldwin
And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.
— James A. Baldwin
All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.
— James A. Baldwin
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
— James A. Baldwin
One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
— James A. Baldwin
I don't want to alarm anyone, but everywhere we go I see Alec Baldwin. It's like he's following us.
— Olivia Sudjic
If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.
— Stephen Baldwin
At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
— Daniel Baldwin
When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.
— Alec Baldwin
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
— Alec Baldwin
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
— James A. Baldwin
When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.
— Jane Krakowski
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
— James Baldwin
Each season is a forerunner of the next, and as the earth revolves, we learn to adjust, and consent to, the alterations.
— Faith Baldwin
We live in a nation of pigs and murderers.
— James Baldwin
It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians is you
— James Baldwin
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
Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
— Tammy Baldwin
I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
— Stephen Baldwin
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.
— William Baldwin
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
— Alec Baldwin
I am what time, circumstance, and history have made of me, certainly, but i am also much more than that. So are we all.
— James Baldwin
Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.
— James Baldwin
And no matter what I was doing, another me sat in my belly, absolutely cold with terror over the question of my life.
— James Baldwin
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.
— Alec Baldwin
If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad.
— James Baldwin
If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
— Daniel Baldwin
I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.
— James Baldwin
Man cannot live by profit alone.
— James A. Baldwin
This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.
— James Baldwin
We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.
— Christina Baldwin
If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
— James A. Baldwin
Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
— Adam Baldwin
The closest I ever came to a near death experience was living in LA.
— Deirdra Baldwin
About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.
— James A. Baldwin
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
— James Baldwin
Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.
— James Baldwin
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
— James Baldwin
Vaheguru, forgive me, but a woman must choose the wisdom of lies over the dangers of truth.
— Shauna Singh Baldwin
Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.
— Christina Baldwin
There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.
— James Baldwin
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.
— John Baldwin Buckstone
When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.
— Stephen Baldwin
You cannot fix what you will not face.
— James A. Baldwin
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
— Christina Baldwin
In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.
— Christina Baldwin
We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
— Baldwin Spencer
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations
— Faith Baldwin
I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
— James A. Baldwin
I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
— Daniel Baldwin
I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
— Adam Baldwin
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
— James A. Baldwin
My journal is my life's companion.
— Christina Baldwin
She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb - upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain.
— James Baldwin
Americans love popcorn, and their love doesn't quit.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.
— Christina Baldwin
These captive men are the hidden price for a hiden lie: the righteous must be able to locate the damned.
— James Baldwin
Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?
— Stephen Baldwin
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James Baldwin
I think work begets work.
— Adam Baldwin
