Quotes by James Baldwin
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”— James Baldwin
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”— James Baldwin
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”— James Baldwin
“The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”— James Baldwin
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.”— James Baldwin
“The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”— James Baldwin
“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”— James Baldwin
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time.”— James Baldwin
“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
“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does.”— James Baldwin
“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”— James Baldwin
“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”— James Baldwin
“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”— James Baldwin
“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