82 Quotations by James Baldwin
- 21. If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give fre ...
- 22. If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze ...
- 23. If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our b ...
- 24. If we--and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, ...
- 25. If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described ...
- 26. In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.
- 27. It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know--which is the price of ...
- 28. It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
- 29. It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themsel ...
- 30. It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the came ...
- 31. It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde ...
- 32. Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where ...
- 33. Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
- 34. Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and th ...
- 35. Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a s ...
- 36. No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening each time, for the first time, for ...
- 37. No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening each time, for the first time, for ...
- 38. No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, ...
- 39. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- 40. Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave maste ...
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