James A. Baldwin Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Faithful, Excess

  "Stranger in the Village", Harper's, October 1953.

• The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

  James A. Baldwin

  Betrayal, Believe, Would Be

  "Stranger in the Village". Harper's Magazine; republished in "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), October 1953.

• We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fake People, Deeds, Belief

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