James A. Baldwin Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

• I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports

• Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Success, Broken Heart

  "James Baldwin's much anticipated new novel - archive" by Hugh Hebert, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2016.

• I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

• Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Black, Poverty

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

• I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Believe, I Can

  "A Mother’s Story: It Is Not What We Say to Black Boys and Men, It Is What We Do to Them" by Laura W. Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

• Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Freedom, Government

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel"

• People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Karma

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

• Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Knows, Ifs

• If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Able, Dies

• Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Life, War

  "Breaking Into James Baldwin's House" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.newyorker.com. October 28, 2015.

• Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Shoes

• Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Sex, Color

• 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.

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