Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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If I could make you stay, I would,’ he shouted. ‘If I had to beat you, chain you, starve you—if I could make you stay, I would.’ He turned back into the room; the wind blew his hair. He shook his finger at me, grotesquely playful. ‘One day, perhaps, you will wish I had.

James A. Baldwin's Popular Quotes

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

- James A. Baldwin

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

- James A. Baldwin

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

- James A. Baldwin

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

- James A. Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pai…

- James A. Baldwin

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

- James A. Baldwin

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

- James A. Baldwin

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

- James A. Baldwin

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally …

- James A. Baldwin