Everyone 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 BALDWINIt is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
-
-
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWIN -
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People 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 -
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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 -
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
JAMES BALDWIN -
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWIN -
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
JAMES BALDWIN -
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
JAMES BALDWIN -
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN -
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWIN -
You 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 -
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWIN