People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWINNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWINHatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINYou write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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 BALDWINIt 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 BALDWINPerhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINThose 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 BALDWINIf you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
JAMES BALDWIN