“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.” — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“It's always at the hour of trouble and confrontation that the missing member aches.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“To dream and dream, like yonder amber light Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the” — James Baldwin Dream Copy Share Image
“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.” — James Baldwin Habits Copy Share Image
“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.” — James Baldwin Art Copy Share Image
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings… — James Baldwin Money Copy Share Image
“Men--not just babies like you, but old men, too--they always need a woman to tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont… — James Baldwin Feminism Copy Share Image
“quoted Djuna Barnes: “Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does… — James Baldwin Greatness Copy Share Image
“And he suddenly takes the bag of tomatoes and smashes them against the nearest wall. Thank God the wall is blank, thank… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“And her mother still struggled in these white kitchens in town, humming sweet hymns, tiny, mild eyed and bent, her father still… — James Baldwin Mother Copy Share Image
“No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or… — James Baldwin Misery Copy Share Image
“You think...that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are. Why… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Yet it is only when one is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream one has long cherished, or a… — James Baldwin Dreams Copy Share Image
“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is… — James Baldwin Apathy Copy Share Image
“There is something fantastic in the spectacle I now present to myself of having run so far, so hard, across the ocean… — James Baldwin Bulldog Copy Share Image
“she was disquietingly fluid—fluid without, however, being able to flow. I felt a hardness and a constriction in her, a grave mistrust,… — James Baldwin Heart Copy Share Image
“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he… — James Baldwin Injustice Copy Share Image
“I was also able to see that the principles governing the rites and customs of the churches in which I grew up… — James Baldwin Christianity Copy Share Image
“You smiled at me the way you smiled at everyone, you told me what you told everyone—and you tell nothing but lies.… — James Baldwin Lies Copy Share Image
“Why are we weighed upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All… — James Baldwin Inner spirit Copy Share Image
“while the excluded begin to realize, having endured everything, that they can endure everything. They do not know the precise shape of… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I know what I'm asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is… — James Baldwin Contempt Copy Share Image
“You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug… — James Baldwin Change 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 Baldwin Change Copy Share Image
“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,… — James Baldwin Death Copy Share Image
“And the darkness of John's sin was like the darkness of the church on Saturday evenings[...] It was like his thoughts as… — James Baldwin Another life Copy Share Image
“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
“Have you been to the police?’ Richard asked. ‘Yes.’ She made a gesture of disgust and rose and walked to the window.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The spreading of the Gospel, regardless of the motives or the integrity or the heroism of some of the missionaries, was an… — James Baldwin Christian church Copy Share Image
“The energy that was buried with the rise of the Christian nations must come back into the world; nothing can prevent it.… — James Baldwin Change Copy Share Image
“One is absolutely forced to make perpetual qualifications and one's own reactions are always canceling each other out. It is this, really,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“How can one... dream of power in any other terms than in the symbols of power?” — James Baldwin Dream Copy Share Image
“there was about his elders an ease in the holy place, and a levity, that made his soul uneasy.” — James Baldwin Mind Copy Share Image
“It’s a long way,” John said slowly, “ain’t it? It’s a hard way. It’s uphill all the way.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“he died because, at the bottom of his heart, he really believed what white people said about him. This is one of… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“People are full of surprise, even for themselves, if they have been stirred enough.” — James Baldwin People Copy Share Image
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