18 Quotations by James A. Baldwin
- 1. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
- 2. Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu ...
- 3. Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy ...
- 4. Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The ...
- 5. He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a ...
- 6. I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
- 7. It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde ...
- 8. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
- 9. Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s ...
- 10. Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and ...
- 11. No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
- 12. Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th ...
- 13. The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a ...
- 14. The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's ...
- 15. There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e ...
- 16. There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ou ...
- 17. To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
- 18. When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a ...
James A. Baldwin Quotes by Power Quotations
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