James A. Baldwin Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.

  James A. Baldwin

  Moving, Home, People

• You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Left

• Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Irrevocable, Conditions

  "Giovanni's Room". Book by James A. Baldwin (Part 2), www.newyorker.com. 1956.

• Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Mean, Thinking

• Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Odds, White

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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