You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWINThere are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
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 -
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
JAMES BALDWIN -
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWIN -
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
JAMES BALDWIN -
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWIN -
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWIN -
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWIN -
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWIN -
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
JAMES BALDWIN