12 beautiful quotes by James Baldwin. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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James Baldwin
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they w...
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be...
“Somebody" said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But mult...
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
“People can cry much easier than they can change.”
“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the...
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tel...
“If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have mad...
“Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we ...
“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they wa...
“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God can...
