James Baldwin Quotes

James Baldwin Quotes.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusias

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James Baldwin
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James Baldwin
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James Baldwin
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James Baldwin
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James Baldwin
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James Baldwin
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugati

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
James Baldwin
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
James Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James Baldwin
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James Baldwin
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me,

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James Baldwin
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Baldwin