Joy and pain 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