James A. Baldwin

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of…

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are…

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think…

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also…

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone…

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become…

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life…

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose…

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love…

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole…

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you…

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one…

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is…

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men…