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 Read Quote
If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not. James Baldwin Read Quote
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. James Baldwin Read Quote
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. James Baldwin Read Quote
It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. James Baldwin Read Quote
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, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. James Baldwin Read Quote
The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black. James Baldwin Read Quote
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin Read Quote
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. James Baldwin Read Quote