James Baldwin Interview with Julius Lester: In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in th

In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the tru — James Baldwin Interview with Julius Lester

In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

James Baldwin Interview with Julius Lester

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Farewell then, verse, and love, and ev'ry toy, The rhymes and rattles of the man — Alexander Pope
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. — Oscar Wilde
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather — Émile Zola
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him — William Cowper
The sun rises before me, but I lie down after him. We are tied and drawn. — Jules Renard
The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives — Anton Chekhov
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, — Confucius
The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant for he was onc — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
The new formula of the novel is not to make the novel. — Jules Renard
si es verdadero el refrán que dice: "Dime con quién andas, decirte he quién eres — Miguel de Cervantes
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decora — Fernando Pessoa
Rousseau texts in French — Jean-Jacques Rousseau