Quotes by Baldwin, James

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality >>

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. >>

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. >>

Quotations about Purity

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, >>

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure. >>

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and >>

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Baldwin, James