If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWINTo 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.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Everybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWIN -
If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
JAMES BALDWIN -
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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 -
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN






