It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINPrecisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINMost 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 BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
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.
JAMES BALDWINI am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWINLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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 BALDWINTrue 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 BALDWINHistory 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