padla

James Baldwin quote ✍️

Quote

About my interests: I don’t know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink — it’s my melancholy conviction that I’ve scarcely ever had enough to eat (this is because it’s impossible to eat enough if you’re worried about the next meal) — and I love to argue with people who do not disagree with me too profoundly, and I love to laugh. I do not like bohemia, or bohemians, I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure, and I do not like people who are earnest about anything. I don’t like people who like me because I’m a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one’s own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright. I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done.
James Baldwin principles work writer

Related Quotes

Featherweight by Suzy Kassem One evening, I sat by the ocean and questioned the moon about my destiny. I revealed to it that I was beginning to feel smaller compared to others, Bec…
Suzy Kassem Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings… bird dying falcon fate feather
What are you so angry about?" my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit. Why aren't you more angry, I had wanted to ask her. But I couldn't talk to my mother th…
Dorothy Allison The Women's Room equality feminism foreword gender politics
...[Y]ou know very well the truth of what I [say]... I have incurred a great deal of bitter hostility; and this is what will bring about my destruction, if anything does... the sla…
Socrates Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates. courage honesty honor integrity

Similar Crossword Answers

Answer Clues
BIRD 386 clues
HONOR 329 clues
FATE 218 clues
WORK 163 clues
DYING 157 clues
WRITER 154 clues
COURAGE 148 clues
HONESTY 111 clues
INTEGRITY 94 clues
EQUALITY 88 clues
GENDER 63 clues
FALCON 62 clues
FEATHER 58 clues
POLITICS 32 clues
FOREWORD 15 clues
FEMINISM 10 clues
PRINCIPLES 10 clues

Similar crossword clues

  1. James Baldwin, e.g. 86.67%
  2. A BALDWIN 81.82%
  3. James Baldwin novel 81.25%
  4. Kim's Baldwin 76.92%
  5. James Baldwin's forte. 76.47%
  6. James Baldwin, for one 76.47%
  7. TV's Baldwin 72.00%
  8. Baldwin 70.00%
  9. james bond 69.57%
  10. james-bond 69.57%
  11. Actor Baldwin 69.23%
  12. A Baldwin bro 69.23%
  13. Noted Baldwin 69.23%
  14. Guinness/Baldwin 68.97%
  15. Mrs. James Brolin 68.97%
  16. James and Julian 68.97%
  17. Novelist Baldwin. 68.97%
  18. Shaved a Baldwin 68.97%
  19. 'Malice' star Baldwin 68.75%
  20. Omnipresent Baldwin 68.75%
✏️ Suggest new clue

Related word tools

Unscramble JAMES5-letter words that start with J5-letter words that end in S5-letter words containing AM5-letter words containing ES5-letter words with J and A
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
?
E
?
E
?
N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
Play Crossword
6 +1

New Crossword Suggestion

Clue
Answer (solution)