You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, …” – James A. Baldwin
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. – James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated …” – James A. Baldwin
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – James A. Baldwin
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given …” – James A. Baldwin
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. – James A. Baldwin
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their …” – James A. Baldwin
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. – James A. Baldwin
It does seem – well, difficult – to be at the merc …” – James A. Baldwin
It does seem – well, difficult – to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself. – James A. Baldwin
I want to be an honest man and a good writer. …” – James A. Baldwin
I want to be an honest man and a good writer. – James A. Baldwin
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made o …” – James A. Baldwin
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. – James A. Baldwin
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in …” – James A. Baldwin
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. – James A. Baldwin
American history is longer, larger, more various, …” – James A. Baldwin
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. – James A. Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to thi …” – James A. Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. – James A. Baldwin
There is never time in the future in which we will …” – James A. Baldwin
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. – James A. Baldwin
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live w …” – James A. Baldwin
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. – James A. Baldwin
I love America more than any other country in this …” – James A. Baldwin
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James A. Baldwin