James Baldwin

Quotes

• “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books t...”
• “Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.”
• “It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
• “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
• “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
• “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
• “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”