“The real troubles with living is that living is so banal. Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road—and the road has… — James Baldwin Garden of eden Copy Share Image
“It was better not to judge the man who had gone down under an impossible burden. It was better to remember: Thou… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“You don’t know, and there’s no way in the world for you to find out, what it’s like to be a black… — James Baldwin Black girl Copy Share Image
“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When I watched all the children, their copper, brown, and beige faces staring up at me as I taught Sunday school, I… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“To Americans, time always sounds like a parade chez vous [at your house], a triumphant parade, like armies with banners entering a… — James Baldwin Death and love Copy Share Image
“Yes, Mama. I’m going to try to love the Lord.” At this there sprang into his mother’s face something startling, beautiful, unspeakably… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
“A big, sandy-haired man held his daughter on his shoulders, showing her the Statue of Liberty. I would never know what this… — James Baldwin American flag Copy Share Image
“In a way, I owe the invitation to the incredible, abysmal, and really cowardly obtuseness of white liberals. Whether in private debate… — James Baldwin Condescending Copy Share Image
“Willpower: "This virtue, like moste virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny… — James Baldwin Character Copy Share Image
“It's terrible sometimes, inside," he said, "that's what's the trouble. You walk these streets, black and funky and cold, and there's not… — James Baldwin Love Copy Share Image
“The baby was restless, and I was scared. It was almost time. I was so tired, I almost wanted to die. For… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
“And the darkness of John's sin was like the darkness of the church on Saturday evenings[...] It was like his thoughts as… — James Baldwin Another life Copy Share Image
“You do not,’ cried Giovanni, sitting up, ‘love anyone! You never have loved anyone, I am sure you never will! You love… — James Baldwin Love Copy Share Image
“I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“One is absolutely forced to make perpetual qualifications and one's own reactions are always canceling each other out. It is this, really,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The energy that was buried with the rise of the Christian nations must come back into the world; nothing can prevent it.… — James Baldwin Change Copy Share Image
“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new… — James Baldwin African americans Copy Share Image
“There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he… — James Baldwin Messiah Copy Share Image
“I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fighting. Or I thought,… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored. [...] The wind of my life was blowing… — James Baldwin Adventure Copy Share Image
“You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug… — James Baldwin Change Copy Share Image
“I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea, time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The people in Harlem know they are living there because white people do not think they are good enough to live anywhere… — James Baldwin Good enough Copy Share Image
“It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than… — James Baldwin Self power Copy Share Image
“White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But… — James Baldwin Black people Copy Share Image
“Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The projects in Harlem are hated. They are hated almost as much as policemen, and this is saying a great deal. And… — James Baldwin Harlem Copy Share Image
“In the eeriest way possible, I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when… — James Baldwin Dinner table Copy Share Image
“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even… — James Baldwin Books Copy Share Image
![“To Americans, time always sounds like a parade chez vous [at your house], a triumphant parade, like armies with banners entering a town . . . as though with enough time and all that fearful energy and virtue you people have, everything will be settled, solved, put in its place. . . . I mean all…” quote by James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a95/james-baldwin-995_death-and-love_to-americans-time-always-sounds-like-a-p_346961.jpg)
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![“I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored. [...] The wind of my life was blowing me away. [...] I take the blue envelope...and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet as I turn and…” quote by James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/63e/james-baldwin-995_adventure_i-saw-myself-sharply-as-a-wanderer-an-ad_2406906.jpg)
