We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. James Baldwin Read Quote
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. James Baldwin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. James Baldwin Read Quote
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. James Baldwin Read Quote
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. James Baldwin Read Quote
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. James Baldwin Read Quote
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. James Baldwin Read Quote
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. James Baldwin Read Quote
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James Baldwin Read Quote
