James Baldwin Quotes

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you.

Please don't kill me!

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.

I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.

The one in front of the gun lives forever

I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.

'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

Please don't kill me, I'm nice.

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?

Maybe I’ll keep you.” Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis’s back with his sword. “It’d be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks.” “I have a trick for you,” said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

I think political people are afraid of me.

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.