Quotes by : James Baldwin

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

A real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things that can be named.....

Some moments in a life, and they needn't be very long or seem very important, can make up for so much....

The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power....

There is an illusion about America, a myth about America to which we are clinging which has nothing to....

It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was....

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily,....

I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered....

That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that....