James Baldwin “People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
James Baldwin “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
James Baldwin “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin “The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
James Baldwin “Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”
James Baldwin “A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”
James Baldwin “The future is like heaven everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.”
James Baldwin “Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it will surely be yours.”
James Baldwin “Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
James Baldwin “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.”
James Baldwin “People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
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