Quotes by : James Baldwin

...when the black populations of the world have a future, so will the Western nations have a future-and....

The power to define the other seals one's definition of oneself.

[I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity,....

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

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.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life....

Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going....

You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your....

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