Baldwin

Famous quotes containing the word baldwin:

“At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)