James Arthur Baldwin Quotes

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. - James Arthur Baldwin

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. - James Arthur Baldwin

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. - James Arthur Baldwin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. - James Arthur Baldwin

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. - James Arthur Baldwin

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

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. - James Arthur Baldwin

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. - James Arthur Baldwin

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. - James Arthur Baldwin

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. - James Arthur Baldwin

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