A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Baldwin Quotes
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than the natural state.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
Everyone wants an artist on the wall or on the shelf, but nobody wants him in the house.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection, and to transform their moral contradictions or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as given for heroism on the battlefield.
What is ghastly and really almost hopeless in our racial situation now is that the crimes we have committed are so great and so unspeakable that the acceptance of this knowledge would lead, literally, to madness. The human being, then, in order to protect himself, closes his eyes, compulsively repeats his crimes, and enters a […]
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
