black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWIN

Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
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

Happen History Million Past People
Those 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 BALDWIN

Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWIN

Arrive People Perpetual World
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWIN

Colour Human Naked Sex
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWIN

Country Humour Love One Liner
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
JAMES BALDWIN

Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
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

Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWIN

Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
JAMES BALDWIN

Friendship Invent Love Lover Parents People Unhappiness
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWIN

Born Change Inspirational Shock State
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWIN

Mirror People Person Truth
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWIN

Hatred Heaven People Silence

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More James Baldwin Quotes