All James A. Baldwin Quotes
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a… Battle
- Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. Cannot Live
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. Been
- The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. African American
- People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by… Allowed
- I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced… Cling
- People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back… Bread
- Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. Broken Heart
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. Anyone
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. Allied
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. America
- Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? Anything Else
- There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always… Action
- I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. Always Believed
- If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. Biology
- It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. Country
- Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider… American
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. Each
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. African American
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. Accept
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. African American
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. African American
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. Afford
- Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you… Dating
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. American