James A. Baldwin

People can cry much easier than they can change…

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be…

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this…

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there…

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really…

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is…

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation…

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious…

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time…

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot…

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black…

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept…

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never…

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them…

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all…