51 Quotes About James-baldwin

He smiled, "Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home anymore. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home." He played with my thumb and grinned. "N'est-ce pas?""Beautiful logic," I said. "You mean I have a home to go to as long as I don't go there?"He laughed. "Well, isn't it true? You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

I stared at absurd Paris, which was as cluttered now, under the scalding sun, as the landscape of my heart.

But I felt that it was my heart which was broken. Something had broken in me to make me so cold and so perfectly still and far away.

The wonderful thing about writers like [James] Baldwin is the way we read them and come across passages that are so arresting we become breathless and have to raise our eyes from the page to keep from being spirited away.

People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.

I feel in myself now a faint, a dreadful stirring of what so overwhelmingly stirred in me then, great thirsty heat, and trembling, and tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst. But out of this astounding, intolerable pain came joy; we gave each other joy that night.

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was.

He had been bruised, so to speak, so badly that the eyes of strangers lacerated him like salt.