To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWIN -
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
JAMES BALDWIN -
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWIN -
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN -
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWIN -
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
JAMES BALDWIN