Quotes by : James Baldwin

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child....

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

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

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is....

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate....

If one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory plays....

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's....

Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could....

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate....

If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is....