“Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as… — James Baldwin American culture Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Apathy Copy Share Image
“There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager… — James Baldwin Acceptance Copy Share Image
“I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Savior had met in me. [...] And yet even… — James Baldwin Time Copy Share Image
“Tell me...is there really no other way for you but this? To kneel down forever before an army of boys for just… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he… — James Baldwin Messiah Copy Share Image
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who… — James Baldwin Death Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the best way to sum all this up is to say that the people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind… — James Baldwin Death Copy Share Image
“Life, it is true, is a process of decisions and alternatives, the conscious awareness and acceptance of limitations. Experience, nevertheless, to say… — James Baldwin Conscious awareness Copy Share Image
“The Negroes in Harlem, who have no money, spend what they have on such gimcracks as they are sold. These include “wider”… — James Baldwin Money Copy Share Image
“What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be—not seem—outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined—as a… — James Baldwin Society Copy Share Image
“Americans are as unlike any other white people in the world as it is possible to be. I do not think, for… — James Baldwin Americans Copy Share Image
“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are… — James Baldwin Beauty Copy Share Image
“This was the last time I ever saw my mother alive. Just the same, this picture gets all mixed up in my… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“I have met only a very few people - and most of these were not Americans - who had any real desire… — James Baldwin American dream Copy Share Image
“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other… — James Baldwin Harlem Copy Share Image
“every clanging ambulance bell, in every scar on the faces of the pimps and their whores, in every helpless, newborn baby being… — James Baldwin Death Copy Share Image
“And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the… — James Baldwin Death Copy Share Image
“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and,… — James Baldwin Bank account Copy Share Image
“To Americans, time always sounds like a parade chez vous [at your house], a triumphant parade, like armies with banners entering a… — James Baldwin Death and love Copy Share Image
“Yes, Mama. I’m going to try to love the Lord.” At this there sprang into his mother’s face something startling, beautiful, unspeakably… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“when the black populations of the world have a future, so will the Western nations have a future-and not till then. But… — James Baldwin Future Copy Share Image
“This equation has placed our cities among the most dangerous in the world and has placed our youth among the most empty… — James Baldwin Children Copy Share Image
“There seems to be a vast amount of confusion in the Western world concerning these matters, but love and sexual activity are… — James Baldwin Love Copy Share Image
“Europeans never had the remotest intention of raising Africans to the Western level, of sharing with them the instruments of physical, political… — James Baldwin Africans Copy Share Image
“They began to care less about the way they looked, the way they dressed, the things they did; presently, one found them… — James Baldwin Life Copy Share Image
“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or… — James Baldwin History Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that… — James Baldwin Black people Copy Share Image
“Assimilation was frequently but another name for the very special brand of relations between human beings which had been imposed by colonialism.… — James Baldwin Assimilation Copy Share Image
“It is only now beginning to be borne in on us—very faintly, it must be admitted, very slowly, and very much against… — James Baldwin Dreams Copy Share Image
“What are you doing all the time? And why do you say nothing? You are evil, you know, and sometimes when you… — James Baldwin Evil Copy Share Image
![“I smiled and I really felt at that moment that Judas and the Savior had met in me. [...] And yet even this was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me again—unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality.” quote by James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f21/james-baldwin-995_time_i-smiled-and-i-really-felt-at-that-momen_1529700.jpg)
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