James Arthur Baldwin Quotes

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. - James Arthur Baldwin

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. - James Arthur Baldwin

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts. - James Arthur Baldwin

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. - James Arthur Baldwin

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. - James Arthur 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 Arthur Baldwin

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James Arthur Baldwin

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. - James Arthur Baldwin

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. - James Arthur Baldwin

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