Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINPrecisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWINNakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWINLiterature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
JAMES BALDWINGuilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWINAll I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINThe most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES BALDWINIf you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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 BALDWINAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWINEverybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINDo I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINIt is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWINAny real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWINMost of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWINIf the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWIN