James Baldwin Quotes
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
James Baldwin
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James Baldwin
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
James Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James Baldwin
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
James Baldwin
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James Baldwin
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James Baldwin