Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to… — 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… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world! — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys… — 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
When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of… — 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
The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — 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
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would 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
You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated,… — 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
