Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
JAMES BALDWIN -
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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 BALDWIN -
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN -
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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 -
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWIN -
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Any 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 BALDWIN -
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
If 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 BALDWIN -
If 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