Browse James Baldwin quotes and sayings.
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be […]
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, […]
Men spoke of how the heart broke up, but never spoke of how the soul […]
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it. James Baldwin
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because […]
For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth […]
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as […]
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. […]
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love […]
The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and […]
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious […]
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light […]
Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really […]
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. […]
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. James Baldwin
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is […]
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never […]
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, […]
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. James Baldwin
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot […]
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it […]
I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think […]