Baldwin Quote by James Baldwin

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

— James Baldwin

“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are so ugly…

— James Baldwin

“All cultures have, furthermore, an economic, social, and political base, and no culture can continue to live if its political destiny is not in…

— James Baldwin

“I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had…

— James Baldwin

“No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt”

— James Baldwin

“Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried to take…

— James Baldwin

“What kind of friendship have you had? Or for that matter...what kind of love affairs?”

— James Baldwin

“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.”

— James Baldwin

“Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.”

— James Baldwin

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he does not…

— James Baldwin