James Baldwin
13 quotations
Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
People can cry much easier than they can change.
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.