The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWIN -
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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 -
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWIN -
No man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWIN -
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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 -
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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






