Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
JAMES BALDWIN
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
JAMES BALDWIN -
-
If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWIN -
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWIN -
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 BALDWIN -
-
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWIN -
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWIN -
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWIN -
