82 Quotations by James Baldwin
- 41. One had the choice, either of "acting just like a nigger" or of not acting just like a nigger--and o ...
- 42. Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss o ...
- 43. People can cry much easier than they can change.
- 44. People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on ...
- 45. People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast ...
- 46. People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast ...
- 47. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty o ...
- 48. Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people ...
- 49. Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre ...
- 50. Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that ...
- 51. The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea ...
- 52. The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
- 53. The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the pa ...
- 54. The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the poin ...
- 55. The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other his ...
- 56. The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the gre ...
- 57. The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
- 58. The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to e ...
- 59. The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly si ...
- 60. The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, ...
James Baldwin Quotes by Power Quotations
|