James A. Baldwin Quotes
+1When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
- James A. Baldwin
+1Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- James A. Baldwin
+1It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
- James A. Baldwin
+1Love 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
+1I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
- James A. Baldwin
+1If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
- James A. Baldwin
+1Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.
- James A. Baldwin
+1I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- James A. Baldwin
+1But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
- James A. Baldwin
+1There 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
+1Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- James A. Baldwin
+1Freedom 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
+1Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James A. Baldwin
0The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
- James A. Baldwin
-1The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
- James A. Baldwin
