82 Quotations by James Baldwin
- 1. A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
![A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.. James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
![A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.. James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wre ...
![An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wre .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience ...
![An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom ...
![Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy ...
![Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
![Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.. James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
![Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.. James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
![Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.. James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without mo ...
![But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without mo .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita ...
![Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 12. Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ...
![Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit ...
![Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
![Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.. James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 15. Experience that destroys innocence also leads one back to it.
![Experience that destroys innocence also leads one back to it.. James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 16. Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
![Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.. James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 17. Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in ...
![Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 18. Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut ...
![Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 19. 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 ...
![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 .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
- 20. I want American history taught. Unless I'm in that book, you're not in it either. History is not a p ...
![I want American history taught. Unless I'm in that book, you're not in it either. History is not a p .... James Baldwin.](/img/view.gif)
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