Quotes by : James Baldwin

We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than....

All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced....

Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.

That summer, in any case, all the fears with which I had grown up, and which were now a part of me and....

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

...they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs....

My father's attitude was that this was but an inevitable phase of my growing up and he affected to take....