Quote by

It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.

It does seem – well, difficult – to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.
– James Baldwin

Related Quotes:

  1. I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross. – AS King
  2. America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men’s cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick. – Walter Abish
  3. Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! – Phindiwe Nkosi
  4. Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. – James Baldwin
  5. Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. – Daniel Kahneman
  6. Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. – Werner Heisenberg
  7. The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. – John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
  8. Talk to strangers politely… Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend. – Israelmore Ayivor
  9. Great deeds begin in the mind,extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,and remarkable deeds begin in the soul. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  10. Mercy is mercy. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  11. If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy. – Billy Graham
  12. Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? – Pierre Troubetzkoy
  13. Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. – Bryan Stevenson
  14. Delivering a project isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly – James Leal
  15. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits. – Roy H Williams
  16. In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us. – J Sheridan Le Fanu
  17. Normal is gross – Jack Barakat
  18. The gross evil of our time defies all labels. – Edward Abbey
  19. Faeces by any other name would smell as gross – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  20. Wharick is the king. I know you already knew that. And by the way, Exian’s head in a bag? Gross gift for a king, just sayin’. (Breccan) – Madison Thorne Grey
  21. I’ve found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind. – Elle Lothlorien
  22. You have to understand, the blood we drink every day to stay alive comes out of a jar in the refrigerator. It is the very definition of gross. – Tamara Summers
  23. I like gross generalizations…I also like disgusting specifics! – Josh Stern
  24. Gross Domestic Product-”the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value. – Matt Taibbi
  25. What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That’s the true nature of the world. – Bilal Tanweer
  26. It does not matter when you begin and end the journey. What matters is your willpower to begin and ability to complete the sacred journey. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  27. It’s difficult to become someone you don’t know at all. It’s difficult, indeed, to become yourself. – Michal Coret
  28. We can not begin to administer justice without understanding the concept of truth and mercy. – Paul Bamikole
  29. The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. – James Baldwin
  30. And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. – James Baldwin
  31. The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare. – James Baldwin
  32. Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being. – James Baldwin
  33. And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me. – James Baldwin
  34. I don’t know any writers who don’t drink. – James Baldwin
  35. People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted. – James Baldwin
  36. And there was something so artless in this smile that I had to smile back. – James Baldwin
  37. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
  38. People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. – James Baldwin
  39. We live in a nation of pigs and murderers. – James Baldwin
  40. There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now. – James Baldwin

More Quotes

, , , , , , , , , ,