Quotes by Baldwin, James

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, eac >>

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely >>

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty >>

Quotations about Gender

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the mal >>

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of pe >>

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman im >>

We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

Baldwin, James