The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWINThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWINThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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 BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINThe impossible is the least that one can demand.
JAMES BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
JAMES BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINIt is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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 BALDWIN