Quotes James Baldwin

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which ...

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle ...

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to o...

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysteriou...

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of...

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that i...

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless....

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire ...

The making of an American begins at the point where he himse...

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begi...

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must active...

The reason people think it's important to be white is that t...

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience...

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad bec...

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions...

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

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an ...

Children have never been good at listening to their el...

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

Everybody's journey is individual.  If you fall i...

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

I met a lot of people in Europe.  I even encounte...

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothi...

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea en...

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea en...