James Arthur Baldwin Quotes

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
-James Arthur Baldwin in Sex quotes.

"It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
-James Arthur Baldwin in Education quotes.

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

"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 Arthur Baldwin in Love quotes.

"Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it."
-James Arthur Baldwin

"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."
-James Arthur Baldwin

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain."
-James Arthur Baldwin

"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
-James Arthur Baldwin