Quotes by : James Baldwin

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

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....

We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence....

It’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave....

She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had....

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

Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's....