"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
― James A. Baldwin
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― James A. Baldwin
More From James A. Baldwin
- "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
- "The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions."
- "Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings."
More In Good
- "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."― Thomas Aquinas
- "We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies."― Lewis Thomas
- "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good."― George Washington