Quotes by Baldwin, James

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvat >>

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. I >>

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biolog >>

Quotations about Identity

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer pla >>

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. >>

I is another. >>

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger. Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

Baldwin, James