787 Quotes by James Baldwin

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and sometimes, discerned.

The name of the game in America is banks and power. And one does not have to investigate too far to discover that the Western economy has been built on the backs of non-white people.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.