If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
JAMES BALDWINEveryone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWIN -
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN -
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN -
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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 -
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN -
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWIN -
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWIN