| "James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them." James Baldwin Quotations |
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| "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." James Baldwin Quotations |
| "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." James Baldwin |
| Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. James Baldwin |
| Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. James Baldwin |
| Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. James Baldwin Remarks |
| For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. James Baldwin Quotations |
| Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. James Baldwin |
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| Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. James Baldwin Sayings |
| Hatred destroys the person who hates. James Baldwin |
| I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. James Baldwin |
| I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. James Baldwin |
| I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. James Baldwin Adages |
| If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. James Baldwin Sayings |
| It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. James Baldwin |
| Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin Remarks |
| Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. James Baldwin Remarks |
| Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Baldwin Remarks |
| Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. James Baldwin Remarks |
| Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin Adages |
| Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. James Baldwin |
| People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. James Baldwin |
| The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible. James Baldwin |
| The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. Another Country, 1962 James Baldwin |
| The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. James Baldwin Sayings |
| The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. James Baldwin |
