“I had written to friends for money, of course, but the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The salvation of America lies in whether or not it is able to embrace the black face. If it cannot do that,… — James Baldwin Black face Copy Share Image
“The sons of the masters were roaming the world, looking for arms to hold them. And the arms that might have held… — James Baldwin Sons Copy Share Image
“His touch could never fail to make me feel desire; yet his hot, sweet breath also made me want to vomit.” — James Baldwin Desire Copy Share Image
“but the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from the other side.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue… — James Baldwin Hatred Copy Share Image
“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine - but trust your experience.” — James Baldwin Experience Copy Share Image
“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it” — James Baldwin African american Copy Share Image
“Don’t you see how unjust it was to wait for me to find it out? To put all the burden on me?… — James Baldwin Feminism Copy Share Image
“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who know that he is going under in his own eyes,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Incontestably, alas, most people are not, in action, worth very much; and yet, every human being is an unprecedented miracle. One tries… — James Baldwin Miracle Copy Share Image
“The man does not remember the hand that struck him, the darkness that frightened him, as a child; nevertheless, the hand and… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The affluent populations, which should have been… — James Baldwin Books Copy Share Image
“all that befell: in her joys, her pipe in the evening, her man at night, the children she suckled, and guided on… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“I kissed her salty tears and murmured, murmured I don’t know what. I felt her body straining, straining to meet mine and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The situation, therefore, in the colonial countries, is tragic,” Cesaire continued. “Wherever colonization is a fact the indigenous culture begins to rot.… — James Baldwin Culture Copy Share Image
“In the Negro world, as in the white world, Negroes who have money band together and try to ignore the existence of… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“White Americans find it as difficult as white people elsewhere do to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession… — James Baldwin Black people Copy Share Image
“And these nights were being acted out under a foreign sky, with no one to watch, no penalties attached—it was this last… — James Baldwin Freedom Copy Share Image
“Being in trouble can have a funny effect on the mind. I don't know if I can explain this. You go through… — James Baldwin Psychology Copy Share Image
“Now, from this night, this coming morning, no matter how many beds I find myself in between now and my final bed,… — James Baldwin Night Copy Share Image
“This lack of what may roughly be called social paranoia causes the American writer in Europe to feel—almost certainly for the first… — James Baldwin American writer Copy Share Image
“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“I may be drunk by morning but that will not do any good. I shall take the train to Paris anyway. The… — James Baldwin Depression Copy Share Image
“In my experience - and this is a very awkward way to put it, since I don't really know what the word… — James Baldwin Experience Copy Share Image
“Beneath the face of anyone you ever loved for true - anyone you love, you will always love, love is not at… — James Baldwin Beloved Copy Share Image
“It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition.… — James Baldwin Acceptance Copy Share Image
“The treatment accorded the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro’s relation to America.… — James Baldwin Human dignity Copy Share Image
“All cultures have, furthermore, an economic, social, and political base, and no culture can continue to live if its political destiny is… — James Baldwin Colonialism Copy Share Image
“A mob cannot afford to doubt: that the Jews killed Christ or that niggers want to rape their sisters or that anyone… — James 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 Baldwin Art Copy Share Image
“For the rebirth of the soul was perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“We've got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other's only hope.” — James Baldwin Hope Copy Share Image
“It is your responsibility to change the society if you think yourself as an educated person” — James Baldwin Change the world Copy Share Image
“if you’ve loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“It was a gesture of great despair and I knew that she was giving herself, not to me, but to that lover… — James Baldwin Despair Copy Share Image
“Why am I going home? he asked himself. But he knew why. It was time. In order not to lose all that… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The rebirth of the soul is perpetual; only rebirth every hour could stay the hand of Satan.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“while the excluded begin to realize, having endured everything, that they can endure everything.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
