James A. Baldwin Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heart, Evil, Imagination

  "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy". "Esquire" Magazine, May 1961.

• There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Powerful, Real, Evil

• Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock.

  James A. Baldwin

  Music, Brother, Memories

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