James Baldwin Quotes & Quotations

James Baldwin Quotes

» People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

» Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

» There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

» Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

» Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

» People can cry much easier than they can change.

» 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 are given for heroism on the battle field.

» Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

» 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.

» Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

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