James A. Baldwin Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Success, Broken Heart

  "James Baldwin's much anticipated new novel - archive" by Hugh Hebert, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2016.

• Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Evil, Imagination

  "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy". "Esquire" Magazine, May 1961.

• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Humanity

• Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Eye, Light

• There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

  James A. Baldwin

  Mother, Brother, Father

• Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Answers

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