James A. Baldwin Inspirational Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

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

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

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

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

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

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.