C. L. R. James Quotes

I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.

I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.

Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.

More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer.

I dont want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

The FBI has a very clear policy. They don't expose victims.

You don't have Republicans and Democrats behind closed doors. We have people passionate about national security behind closed doors. And I think that's the way that it should be.

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Man must be associated with his fellows.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.

The very things in your life that seem to be depressing and oppressing you right now are going to be the means by which you set yourself free.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.

They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long.

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?

The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the bills.

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.