Quote by James Baldwin Download Open image ““With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.”” — James Baldwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I sighed, a deep and heavy sigh. If only sighs could carry all my troubles away.” — Denise Grover Swank Copy Share Image
“I wanted to scream, “Just tell us already!” But of course I didn’t. I remained still in the backseat, barely breathing.” — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
“What if you take the one part of me that's finally started to breathe without crying?” — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
“... she didn’t even have time to scream, just gave a startled “Oh!” and was gone,” — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“...there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Ah! I had been screaming. I realized it. Lots of mortals around me, high up in the night, were telling me to be quiet.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I would listen to her soft voice and wonder if, somewhere deep inside, she was screaming, too.” — Zoë Marriott Copy Share Image
“Feel free to scream, whisper, and everything in between. I want to hear it all.” — Kristen Hope Mazzola Copy Share Image
“Have I ever said how much I detest the sound of screaming humanity?” — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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 they lived,… — James Baldwin 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 so ugly… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt” — 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 to take… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“What kind of friendship have you had? Or for that matter...what kind of love affairs?” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.” — James Baldwin 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 stood to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
