James Baldwin's Quotes

James Baldwin's Quotes 59

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time,...

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of...

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the...

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because...

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to...

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most...

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if...

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by...

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for...

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate...

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so...

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others....

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more...

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am...

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they...

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot...

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from...

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even...

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