I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began.… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen? — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
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