“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.” — 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 Guilt Copy Share Image
“Thursday’s great event was Aimé Cesaire’s speech in the afternoon, dealing with the relation between colonization and culture.” — James Baldwin Culture Copy Share Image
“If your countrymen think that privacy is a crime, so much the worse for your country.” — James Baldwin Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“It doesn't do any good to fight with Sonny. Sonny just moves back, inside himself, where he can't be reached.” — James Baldwin Fight Copy Share Image
“I am not trying to be méchant when I talk about women. I respect women—very much—for their inside life, which is not… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“but what men imagine they are doing and what they are doing in fact are rarely the same thing.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.” — James Baldwin Art Copy Share Image
“This laughter is the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom… — James Baldwin Comedy Copy Share Image
“There is still, for me, no pathos quite like the pathos of those multicolored, worn, somehow triumphant and transfigured faces, speaking from… — James Baldwin Journey Copy Share Image
“this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I don't give a damn if there's any hope for them or not. But I know that I am not about to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Confession Who knows more of Wanda, the wan, than I do? And who knows more of Terry, the torn, than I do?… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested so much within oneself. It is a mystery, containing,… — James Baldwin Lover Copy Share Image
“And if one despairs—as who has not?—of human love, God’s love alone is left. But God—and I felt this even then, so… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“John’s heart was hardened against the Lord. His father was God’s minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could… — James Baldwin Father Copy Share Image
“The root of the black man's hatred is rage, and he does not so much had the white man as simply as… — James Baldwin Hatred Copy Share Image
“It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being ... must first divorce himself… — James Baldwin Christian church Copy Share Image
“I suppose this is why I asked her to marry me: to give me something to be moored to. Perhaps this was… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle; all, in one fashion… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who… — James Baldwin Christianity Copy Share Image
“Yes, it does indeed mean something—something unspeakable—to be born, in a white country, an Anglo-Teutonic, antisexual country, black. You very soon, without… — James Baldwin Black people Copy Share Image
“When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I have been carried into precinct basements often enough, and I have seen and heard and endured the secrets of desperate white… — James Baldwin Men and women 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 Children Copy Share Image
“But, Cass, ask yourself, look out and ask yourself – wouldn’t you hate all white people if they kept you in prison… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision… — James Baldwin Character Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to describe as a culture what may simply be, after all, a history of oppression? That is, is this… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“Only a man can see in the face of a woman the girl she was. It is a secret which can be… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
“The projects are hideous, of course, there being a law, apparently respected throughout the world, that popular housing shall be as cheerless… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“And the others, who have avoided all of these deaths, get up in the morning and go downtown to meet “the man.”… — James Baldwin Death Copy Share Image
“The trouble with a secret life is that it is very frequently a secret from the person who lives it and not… — James Baldwin Dreams Copy Share Image
“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… — James Baldwin Death Copy Share Image
“A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.” — James Baldwin Compassion Copy Share Image
