“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.” — James Baldwin 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 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 Copy Share Image
“This was the last time I ever saw my mother alive. Just the same, this picture gets all mixed up in my… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Let me,’ said Cass. ‘It’s just about the only thing that a poor white woman can still do.’ Ida looked at her,… — 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 Copy Share Image
“all that befell: in her joys, her pipe in the evening, her man at night, the children she suckled, and guided on… — 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 Copy Share Image
“The man does not remember the hand that struck him, the darkness that frightened him, as a child; nevertheless, the hand and… — James Baldwin 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 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 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 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 they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are so ugly… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“All cultures have, furthermore, an economic, social, and political base, and no culture can continue to live if its political destiny is not in… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“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… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“What kind of friendship have you had? Or for that matter...what kind of love affairs?” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“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… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
