Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINNeither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
JAMES BALDWINOur crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINWhoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWINIf a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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 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 BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINTo be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWINWe all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINNo one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWIN