Quotes by Baldwin, James

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

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

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling del >>

Quotations about Minorities

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities >>

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stron >>

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. >>

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.

Baldwin, James