Logo
Quote by James Baldwin
If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person

If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone. – James Baldwin

Category:
alone
Author
James Baldwin
Read Quote

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

Category:
Beauty
Author
James Baldwin
Read Quote

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

Category:
Listening
Author
James Baldwin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Society
category

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Society

On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that Ive been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and thats been great, man. A lot of people dont have that platform. – George A. Romero

Category:
Society

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Society

We are what make up society. – Tom Shadyac

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

Even savage animals can agree among themselves. – Juvenal

Category:
Agreement

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Conformity & Nonconformity

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

Category:
Music

But most good movies have a gun in them. – David Sedaris

Category:
movies