And, in fact, the truth about the black man, as a historical entity and as a human being, has been hidden from him, deliberately and cruelly; the power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

— James Baldwin

James Baldwin Quotes

But to try and find out what Americans mean is almost impossible because there are so many things they do not want to face.

— James Baldwin

I will smile at you when you wake up.

— James Baldwin

And, in fact, the truth about the black man, as a historical entity and as a human being, has been hidden from him, deliberately and cruelly; the power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

— James Baldwin

Again, the terms “civilized” and “Christian” begin to have a very strange ring, particularly in the ears of those who have been judged to be neither civilized nor Christian, when a Christian nation surrenders to a foul and violent orgy, as Germany did during the Third Reich.

— James Baldwin

I had been well conditioned by the world in which I grew up, so I did not yet dare take the idea of becoming a writer seriously.

— James Baldwin

I have no wish to stay here,” he said, “in this wretched mausoleum of a country. Let us go to New York. I will make my future there. There is no future here, for a boy like me.

— James Baldwin

Men have to think about so many things. Women only have to think about men.

— James Baldwin

It was the hour when darkness begins, when the sounds of the night begin.

— James Baldwin

We moved in a silence which was music from everywhere.

— James Baldwin

Honey,” he said, “you ain’t no bigger than a minute.” She sighed. “Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

— James Baldwin

Nor can you get a meal anywhere in the South without being confronted with “grits”; a pale, lumpy, tasteless kind of porridge which the Southerner insists is a delicacy but which I believe they ingest as punishment for their sins.

— James Baldwin

And you, heretic! Where is she? Where is the queen?” “Have you checked your ass? I heard it’s pretty roomy in there.” I spat blood, moving to hands and knees. I still had the Spear of Nine Spheres wrapped in one tight-knuckled fist, for all the good it was doing me. “You are in no position to sling insults.” The masked Mata Argis Agent had a cold voice, dark with anger. “Where is she!? What have you done to her?!” “The same thing I do to your mom every night.

— James Osiris Baldwin

You come up to my sternum,” Suri drawled back. “Anything below tit-height is a kid or a dwarf.

— James Osiris Baldwin

Hope is a bad survival strategy.

— James Osiris Baldwin

I was going be to flying around like some wacked-out Chinese martial arts movie hero by endgame, which was 200% okay with me.

— James Osiris Baldwin

Hey, what do you think the best way to train Willpower is?” “Willpower? Uhh... ” Suri trailed off. “I dunno. Playing chess?” “That’s more Int, I think.” “Willpower is all about resisting stuff, right?” Suri shrugged. “You probably train it through resisting temptation, defeat, stuff like that.” “Resisting temptation, huh?” I scratched the stubble on my jaw. “Guess I’m starting up No-Nut November.” “Well, yeah.

— James Osiris Baldwin

That, my good sir, appears to be an eyeball.

— James Osiris Baldwin

How wonderful,” I said flatly. The sarge grinned, her eyes glittering. “Every day’s wonderful here with me. Dismissed!

— James Osiris Baldwin

I used to get up and sleep eat when I was alive. One time, I woke up in the kitchen and found myself shoveling gummi bears covered in hot sauce into my face.

— James Osiris Baldwin

And that, right there, was why I wasn’t playing a mage. I’d probably read a Name backwards and summon Cthulhu.

— James Osiris Baldwin
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