Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
JAMES BALDWINThe 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 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 BALDWINThose who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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 BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWINIf a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWINWhen you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWINEveryone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
JAMES BALDWINThe moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWINTo be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWIN