Quotes by Baldwin, James

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects >>

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a coun >>

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for other >>

Quotations about Sexuality

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have a >>

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this da >>

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a wom >>

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.

Baldwin, James