Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. –
James A. Baldwin
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
– James A. Baldwin
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
– James A. Baldwin
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
– James A. Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
– James A. Baldwin
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
– James A. Baldwin
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
– James A. Baldwin
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
– James A. Baldwin
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
– James A. Baldwin
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
– James A. Baldwin
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
– James A. Baldwin
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
– James A. Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
– James A. Baldwin