“And his mind could not contain the terrible stretch of time that united twelve men fishing by the shores of Galilee, and… — James Baldwin Psychology Copy Share Image
“You stop that,’ he said, in a voice which he did not recognise. ‘You stop that. You stop trying to kill me.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The colors on the river faded, the rain began, and the river began to rise. It was apparent that the sun would… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“All for the first time, in the days when acts had no consequences and nothing was irrecoverable, and love was simple and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the… — James Baldwin Slave Copy Share Image
“And yet - when one begins to search for the crucial, the definitive moment, the moment which changed all others, one finds… — James Baldwin Time Copy Share Image
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being… — James Baldwin Being real Copy Share Image
“The projects in Harlem are hated. They are hated almost as much as policemen, and this is saying a great deal. And… — James Baldwin Harlem Copy Share Image
“I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present… — James Baldwin America Copy Share Image
“A big, sandy-haired man held his daughter on his shoulders, showing her the Statue of Liberty. I would never know what this… — James Baldwin American flag Copy Share Image
“In a way, I owe the invitation to the incredible, abysmal, and really cowardly obtuseness of white liberals. Whether in private debate… — James Baldwin Condescending Copy Share Image
“Willpower: "This virtue, like moste virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny… — James Baldwin Character Copy Share Image
“It's terrible sometimes, inside," he said, "that's what's the trouble. You walk these streets, black and funky and cold, and there's not… — James Baldwin Love Copy Share Image
“The baby was restless, and I was scared. It was almost time. I was so tired, I almost wanted to die. For… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I was in a terrible confusion. Sometimes I thought, but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fighting. Or I thought,… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“He did not seem to know enough about the people in his novel. They did not seem to trust him. They were… — James Baldwin Books Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming… — James Baldwin Garden of eden Copy Share Image
“He must be “good” not only in order to please his parents and not only to avoid being punished by them; behind… — James Baldwin Fear Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly possible — indeed, it is far from uncommon — to go to bed one night, or wake up one… — James Baldwin Eternal youth Copy Share Image
“There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent… — James Baldwin Acceptance Copy Share Image
“We had bought a kilo of cherries and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The people who have managed to get off this block have only got as far as a more respectable ghetto. This respectable… — James Baldwin Friendship Copy Share Image
“Until i die there will be these moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth's witches, when his… — James Baldwin Red hair Copy Share Image
“The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes— I am not speaking now of its racial value,… — James Baldwin Nonviolence Copy Share Image
“Time: the word tolled like the bells of a church. Fonny was doing: time. In six months time, our baby would be… — James Baldwin Compassion Copy Share Image
“He stood for a moment on the melting snow, distracted, and then began to run down the hill, feeling himself fly as… — James Baldwin Melting snow Copy Share Image
“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some… — James Baldwin Advice Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could… — James Baldwin English language Copy Share Image
“She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“But it’s not possible to forget anybody you were that hung up on, who was that hung up on you. You can’t… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Yves did not like showers, he preferred long, scalding baths, with newspapers, cigarettes, and whiskey on a chair next to the bathtub,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going… — James Baldwin Inspirational Copy Share Image
“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Elijah Muhammad himself has now been carrrying the same message for more than thirty years; he is not an overnight sensation, and… — James Baldwin Elijah Copy Share Image
“The woman on the bed was old, her life was fading as the mist rose. She thought of her mother as already… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“John looked with a child’s impenetrable gravity into the preacher’s face, as though he were turning this question over in his mind… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“What the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Best advice I ever got was an old friend of mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way… — James Baldwin Best advice Copy Share Image
