Intimate

Famous quotes containing the word intimate:

    who would connive
    in civilized outrage
    yet understand the exact
    and tribal, intimate revenge.
    Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    The secret lies, I think, in his intimate knowledge of the people he is addressing be they black or white, and in the forthrightness with which he speaks of those things which hurt and baffle them.... He allows them their self-respect—indeed, he insists on it.
    James Baldwin (1924–1987)