Quotes James A. Baldwin

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a c...

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beaut...

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he wa...

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extreme...

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely ex...

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely...

Children have never been very good at listening to their eld...

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if...

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and ...

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with ...

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be ...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy...

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, cert...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so ...

I love America more than any other country in the world and,...

I love America more than any other country in this world, an...

I want to be an honest man and a good writer....

I've always believed that you can think positive just as wel...

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced...

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with powe...

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person...

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented m...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun in...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does...

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else un...