James A. Baldwin Quotes About Inspirational
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I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
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Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.
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If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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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.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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