Quotes by James Arthur Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

#Hate

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time,...

#Happiness

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

#Love

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is...

#Truth, #Universe

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

#Education

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want...

#Love

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

#Love

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

#Love

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is...

#Power

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation....

#Future, #Time

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of...

#Belief, #Faith, #Impossibility

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your...

#Freedom, #Liberty