“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. — James Baldwin Art Copy Share Image
“If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving.” — James Baldwin Generosity Copy Share Image
“But white Americans do not believe in death, and this is why the darkness of my skin so intimidates them.” — James Baldwin Darkness Copy Share Image
“We human beings now have the power to exterminate ourselves; this seems to be the entire sum of our achievement.” — James Baldwin Exterminate Copy Share Image
“She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb—upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side… — James Baldwin Joy and pain Copy Share Image
“Then I wanted to beg him to forgive me. But this would have been too great a confession; any yielding at that… — James Baldwin Confession Copy Share Image
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a… — James Baldwin Europe Copy Share Image
“Now, one hears from a long time ago that "white is merely a state of mind." I add to that, white is… — James Baldwin Choice Copy Share Image
“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to… — James Baldwin African americans Copy Share Image
“I scarcely know how to describe that room. It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I did not know, however, that ancient glories imply, at least in the middle of the present century, present fatigue and, quite… — James Baldwin Ancient Copy Share Image
“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
“The people in Harlem know they are living there because white people do not think they are good enough to live anywhere… — James Baldwin Good enough Copy Share Image
“I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea, time flowed past indifferently above us, hours and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored. [...] The wind of my life was blowing… — James Baldwin Adventure Copy Share Image
“It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than… — James Baldwin Self power Copy Share Image
“White people were, and are, astounded by the holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But… — James Baldwin Black people Copy Share Image
“Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In the eeriest way possible, I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when… — James Baldwin Dinner table Copy Share Image
“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even… — James Baldwin Books Copy Share Image
“You do not,’ cried Giovanni, sitting up, ‘love anyone! You never have loved anyone, I am sure you never will! You love… — James Baldwin Love Copy Share Image
“I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new… — James Baldwin African americans Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will… — James Baldwin Beauty Copy Share Image
“Love him,’ said Jacques, with vehemence, ‘love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?… — James Baldwin Affairs Copy Share Image
“I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“And blood, in all the cities through which he passed, ran down. There seemed no door, anywhere, behind which blood did not… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“They have never put it into words, they cannot; but each absence is a threat. They never felt this way in New… — James Baldwin Birmingham Copy Share Image
“all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and controlled my vision of… — James Baldwin Dreams Copy Share Image
“The real troubles with living is that living is so banal. Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road—and the road has… — James Baldwin Garden of eden Copy Share Image
“It was better not to judge the man who had gone down under an impossible burden. It was better to remember: Thou… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“You don’t know, and there’s no way in the world for you to find out, what it’s like to be a black… — James Baldwin Black girl Copy Share Image
“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was… — James Baldwin 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
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own-which it is-and render impassable with our… — James Baldwin Activism Copy Share Image
“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“If dirty words frighten you...I really don’t know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“It is quite impossible to write a worth-while novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse, unhappily,… — James Baldwin Books Copy Share Image
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