The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINThe place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
JAMES BALDWINIt’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWINHistory 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 BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWINIf I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINAll art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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 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 BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINPeople pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
JAMES BALDWIN