“To dream and dream, like yonder amber light Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the” — James Baldwin Dream Copy Share Image
“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.” — James Baldwin Art Copy Share Image
“It is your responsibility to change the society if you think yourself as an educated person” — James Baldwin Change the world Copy Share Image
“if you’ve loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“It was a gesture of great despair and I knew that she was giving herself, not to me, but to that lover… — James Baldwin Despair Copy Share Image
“Why am I going home? he asked himself. But he knew why. It was time. In order not to lose all that… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It seems to be typical of life in America, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe,… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books… — James Baldwin Books Copy Share Image
“There were hardly any coloured people in the town I grew up in – how am I to know?’ And she hated… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that… — James Baldwin Burdens Copy Share Image
“If men don't know what's happening, what they're doing, where they're going--what are women to do? If Richard doesn't know what kind… — James Baldwin Feminism Copy Share Image
“I went down again. My heart and I went down again. I was aware of her hand. I was aware of my… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
“John looked with a child’s impenetrable gravity into the preacher’s face, as though he were turning this question over in his mind… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“This equation has placed our cities among the most dangerous in the world and has placed our youth among the most empty… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“Europeans never had the remotest intention of raising Africans to the Western level, of sharing with them the instruments of physical, political… — James Baldwin Africans Copy Share Image
“They began to care less about the way they looked, the way they dressed, the things they did; presently, one found them… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a vast amount of confusion in the Western world concerning these matters, but love and sexual activity are… — James Baldwin Love Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that… — James Baldwin Black people Copy Share Image
“It is only now beginning to be borne in on us—very faintly, it must be admitted, very slowly, and very much against… — James Baldwin Dreams Copy Share Image
“Assimilation was frequently but another name for the very special brand of relations between human beings which had been imposed by colonialism.… — James Baldwin Assimilation Copy Share Image
“We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent… — James Baldwin Acceptance Copy Share Image
“The people who have managed to get off this block have only got as far as a more respectable ghetto. This respectable… — James Baldwin Friendship Copy Share Image
“Until i die there will be these moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth's witches, when his… — James Baldwin Red hair Copy Share Image
“I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will… — James Baldwin Beauty Copy Share Image
“Love him,’ said Jacques, with vehemence, ‘love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?… — James Baldwin Affairs Copy Share Image
“And blood, in all the cities through which he passed, ran down. There seemed no door, anywhere, behind which blood did not… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Elijah Muhammad himself has now been carrrying the same message for more than thirty years; he is not an overnight sensation, and… — James Baldwin Elijah Copy Share Image
“The woman on the bed was old, her life was fading as the mist rose. She thought of her mother as already… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way… — James Baldwin Best advice Copy Share Image
“Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as… — James Baldwin American culture Copy Share Image
“What the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Tell me...is there really no other way for you but this? To kneel down forever before an army of boys for just… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager… — James Baldwin Acceptance Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Apathy Copy Share Image
“I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Savior had met in me. [...] And yet even… — James Baldwin Time Copy Share Image
“She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
![“I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Savior had met in me. [...] And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me again—unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.” quote by James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f21/james-baldwin-995_time_i-smiled-and-i-really-felt-at-that-momen_1529700.jpg)
