787 Quotes by James Baldwin

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

It is entirely unacceptable that I should have no voice in the political affairs of my own country, for I am not a ward of America; I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores.

I can’t be a pessimist, because I am alive.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

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

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.

You cannot fix what you will not face.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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.