James Baldwin-Quotes

James Baldwin was one of my heroes growing up. I truly enjoyed each book or essay written by this prolific author. But, I was thinking thoughout his life, he has given us an inmeasurable amount of quotes from the life he led and the time or era during which he wrote. Here's a list of my favorites:

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war: love is growing up."

"Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"

"The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose."

"People can cry much easier than they can change."

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

"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."

"I want to be an honest man and a good writer."

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpertually."

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power and no one holds power forever."

"People who treat people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters come floating back to them, poisoned."

Those are a few of my favorites, in his loving memory-Mr Baldwin has changed my life for the better and continues to inspire my very thoughts and actions