Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINPrecisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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 BALDWINThe world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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 BALDWINLove was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWINArtists are here to disturb the peace.
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 are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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 BALDWINI can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
JAMES BALDWINFor nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWINPerhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWINNo one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN