It 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 BALDWINAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
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 -
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN -
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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 -
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWIN -
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWIN -
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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