james a baldwin Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James A Baldwin | 2 August 1924 | 1 December 1987 | American | David Baldwin | Emma Berdis Jones | Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Activist | An essayist, playwright and novelist regarded as a highly insightful, iconic writer with works like The Fire Next Time and Another Country. |
A list of popular james a baldwin quotes are given below.
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." - James A Baldwin
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James A Baldwin
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." - James A Baldwin
"You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back." - James A Baldwin
"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all." - James A Baldwin
"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind." - James A Baldwin
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." - James A Baldwin
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." - James A Baldwin
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it." - James A Baldwin
"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks." - James A Baldwin
"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 A Baldwin
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time." - James A 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 A Baldwin
"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 A Baldwin
"It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself." - James A Baldwin
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. 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." - James A Baldwin
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." - James A 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 A Baldwin
"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind." - James A Baldwin
"There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain." - James A Baldwin