Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWINGenerations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINThose kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
JAMES BALDWINYou were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWINIf the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
JAMES BALDWINI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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 BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWIN