--- title: "3 Apathy Quotes By James Baldwin" description: "3 Apathy quotes by James Baldwin. Plus more from James Baldwin and more Apathy sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/675/james-baldwin-995_apathy_the-question-is-really-a-kind-of-apathy_1490466.jpg" --- > [“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/the-question-is-really-a-kind-of-apathy-and-ignorance-which-is-the/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/675/james-baldwin-995_apathy_the-question-is-really-a-kind-of-apathy_1490466.jpg) > [“Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/many-have-given-up-they-stay-home-and-watch-the-tv-screen-living-on/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/james-baldwin-995_57_many-have-given-up-they-stay-home-and-wa_1996202.jpg) > [“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/the-subtle-and-deadly-change-of-heart-that-might-occur-in-you-would/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/james-baldwin-995_apathy_the-subtle-and-deadly-change-of-heart-th_2305873.jpg) ## Other authors on Apathy - [Shannon L. Alder 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathy/shannon-l-alder/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathy/noam-chomsky/) - [Craig D. Lounsbrough 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathy/craig-d-lounsbrough/) - [Martin Luther King, Jr 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathy/martin-luther-king-jr/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-lionel-shriver-60623.jpg) Lionel Shriver 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathy/lionel-shriver/) - [Ken Wytsma 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathy/ken-wytsma/) ## More by James Baldwin > [“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/in-any-case-white-people-who-had-robbed-black-people-of-their-liberty/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are so ugly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/the-south-is-very-beautiful-but-its-beauty-makes-one-sad-because-the/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“All cultures have, furthermore, an economic, social, and political base, and no culture can continue to live if its political destiny is not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/all-cultures-have-furthermore-an-economic-social-and-political-base/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/i-remembered-that-life-in-that-room-seemed-to-be-occuring-beneath-the/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/no-it-would-help-if-i-were-able-to-feel-guilty-but-the-end-of/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/perhaps-now-though-he-had-hit-bottom-one-thing-about-the-bottom-he/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“What kind of friendship have you had? Or for that matter...what kind of love affairs?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/what-kind-of-friendship-have-you-had-or-for-that-matter-what-kind-of/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/for-these-are-all-our-children-we-will-all-profit-by-or-pay-for-what/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/every-society-is-really-governed-by-hidden-laws-by-unspoken-but/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/in-those-days-my-mother-was-given-to-the-exasperating-and-mysterious/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/he-was-suggesting-that-all-negroes-were-held-in-a-state-of-supreme/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/in-the-beginning-and-neither-can-this-be-overstated-a-negro-just/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“If the world wasn't so full of dead folks maybe those of us that's trying to live wouldn't have to suffer so bad.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/if-the-world-wasn-t-so-full-of-dead-folks-maybe-those-of-us-that-s/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/i-am-very-much-concerned-that-american-negroes-achieve-their-freedom/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) > [“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-baldwin/the-paradox-and-a-fearful-paradox-it-is-is-that-the-american-negro/) [James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-baldwin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apathy/james-baldwin/#itemlist", "name": "3 Apathy Quotes By James Baldwin", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means. 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