Quotes by : James A. Baldwin

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can....

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the....

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent....

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend....

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone....

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that.....

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control....