787 Quotes by James Baldwin

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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

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.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.