“One must say Yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found—and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“You can't see yourself all over. But I can. Part of you is honey, part of you is copper, some of you… — James Baldwin Copper Copy Share Image
Not everything that we face can be changed but nothing can be changed until it's faced. — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In the United States, violence and heroism have been made synonymous except when it comes to blacks, and” — James Baldwin Heroism Copy Share Image
“You face reality, not the lights. The lights go off as quickly as they come on.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more boring, anyway, than sexual activity as an end in itself, and a great many people who came out… — James Baldwin Great man Copy Share Image
“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.” — James Baldwin Books Copy Share Image
“all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me… — James Baldwin Dreams Copy Share Image
“Out of joy strength came, strength that was fashioned to bear sorrow: sorrow brought forth joy. Forever? This was Ezekiel's wheel, in… — James Baldwin Ezekiel Copy Share Image
“The root of the black man’s hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate white men as simply wants them… — James Baldwin Hatred Copy Share Image
“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by… — James Baldwin African american Copy Share Image
“On days like this," Cass said, suddenly, "I remember what it was like--I think I remember--to be young, very young." She looked… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In Africa, he said, there was none whatever. Africans do not, in fact, believe that Christianity is any longer real for Europeans,… — James Baldwin Africans Copy Share Image
“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, we have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably because we suspect that it will destroy, as… — James Baldwin Distrust Copy Share Image
“In the culture to be born there will no doubt be old and new elements. How these elements will be mixed is… — James Baldwin Old and new Copy Share Image
“The fear that I heard in my father’s voice, for example, when he realized that I really believed I could do anything… — James Baldwin Fear Copy Share Image
“Of course, I must say that I don't think America is God's gift to anybody--if it is, God's days have got to… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
“Why no," he said, reasonably, and looked at his watch, "we can wait another hour if you like. We can become friends… — James Baldwin Closing time Copy Share Image
“And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitability undergo with their elders: I was beginning to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I can conceive of no Negro native to this country who has not, by the age of puberty, been irreparably scarred by… — James Baldwin Harlem Copy Share Image
“We spend vast amounts of our time an emotional energy in learning how not to be natural and in eluding the trap… — James Baldwin Emotional energy Copy Share Image
“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interpose… — James Baldwin Culture Copy Share Image
“Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or… — James Baldwin Apathy Copy Share Image
“I did not tell him my decision, that would have broken my will. I did not wait to have breakfast with him… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“That day in Chartres they had passed through town and watched women kneeling at the edge of the water, pounding clothes against… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The morning of that day, as Gabriel rose and started out to work, the sky was low and nearly black and the… — James Baldwin Rain Copy Share Image
“Some escaped the trap, most didn't. Those who got out always left something of themselves behind, as some animals amputate a leg… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“She knows Daddy better than I do. I think it's because she's felt since we were children that our Daddy maybe loved… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Giovanni had awakened an itch, had released a gnaw in me. I realized it one afternoon, when I was taking him to… — James Baldwin Affection Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin African americans Copy Share Image
“Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it” — 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… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all… — James Baldwin Escape Copy Share Image
“We stared at each other across a narrow space that was full of danger, that almost seemed to roar, like flame. ‘Come,’… — James Baldwin Danger Copy Share Image
“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“She was in a terrible state, for she found that she could neither take her eyes off him nor look at him.” — James Baldwin Eyes Copy Share Image
“What kind of friendship have you had? Or for that matter...what kind of love affairs?” — James Baldwin Affairs Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible omen when you see an American flag on somebody else’s car and realize that’s your enemy.” — James Baldwin American flag Copy Share Image
