American - Novelist | August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin
MusicLimitsStoryUnderstanding
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
ManRareHelplessWhoVeryDoes
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
ActDangerCommitted
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.
LoveJourneyYouFallBoyMore
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
HistoryTimeI AmMeMoreMade
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
YouPersonKindWayBecomeReal
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
EducationBlackYouWhite
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
PositiveNegativeThinkYouAlways
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
TimeKnowFirst TimeFirstHappen
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
TalentWorldBornNothingConspiracy
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
KnowledgeUglyPriceSideCalling
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
LifeRespectEffortThinkPresent
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