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 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 BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINYouth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINPeople who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWINIf the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWIN