James A. Baldwin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

“Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.”

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”

“You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.”

“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”

“Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?”

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.”

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”

“No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.”