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There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
— James Baldwin
It was a gesture of great despair and I knew that she was giving herself, not to me, but to that lover who would never come.
— James Baldwin
I don't believe there's a white man in this country, baby, who can get his dick hard, without he hear some nigger moan.
— James Baldwin
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
— James Baldwin
Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
— Chris Martin
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
— James A. Baldwin
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
— James Baldwin
I'm a firm believe that a man looks his best in a suit and I feel like in the late 40's people just dressed up to do everything.
— Anthony Mackie
we're too old to be young.
— Caroline Kepnes
He was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time.
— James Baldwin
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
— James Baldwin
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James Baldwin
Hatred destroys the person who hates.
— James A. Baldwin
The people who think of themselves as White have the choice of becoming human or irrelevant.
— James Baldwin
Artists are the only people in a society who will tell that society the truth about itself.
— James Baldwin
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
— James Baldwin
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
— James Baldwin
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
— Henry David Thoreau
The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself.
— James Baldwin
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James Baldwin
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
— James Baldwin
I don't know any writers who don't drink.
— James Baldwin
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
— James A. Baldwin
