For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINFor these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWINTo be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWINThe impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINConfusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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 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.
JAMES BALDWINEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWINNo one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINThere are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s 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 BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWIN