Famous Quotes
179 Quotations with Baldwin.
- 101. James Baldwin: It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know--wh ...
- 102. James Baldwin: What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ance ...
- 103. James Baldwin: If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after a ...
- 104. James Baldwin: To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. T ...
- 105. James Baldwin: The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definiti ...
- 106. James Baldwin: The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myt ...
- 107. Stanley Baldwin: War would end if the dead could return.
- 108. James A. Baldwin: A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford t ...
- 109. James A. Baldwin: Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter t ...
- 110. James A. Baldwin: Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing le ...
- 111. James A. Baldwin: Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in l ...
- 112. James A. Baldwin: He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I ...
- 113. James A. Baldwin: I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
- 114. James A. Baldwin: It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so dis ...
- 115. James A. Baldwin: Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, ...
- 116. James A. Baldwin: Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go throug ...
- 117. James A. Baldwin: Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of th ...
- 118. James A. Baldwin: No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price fo ...
- 119. James A. Baldwin: Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is ...
- 120. James A. Baldwin: The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much ...