Quotes by : James Baldwin

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover....

I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your....

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white....

And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.

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

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

Whereas Jesus and his disciples were distrusted by the state largely because they respected the poor....

The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation.