James A. Baldwin Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
James A. Baldwin quotes and sayings page 5 (author). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 59 we have.
“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
“The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.”
“The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.”
“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.”
“I want to be an honest man and a good writer.”
“The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
“The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.”
“There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.”
“To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.”
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