“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”

—James Baldwin

“We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.”

—James Baldwin

“The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white. ”

—James Baldwin, “On Language, Race, and the Black Writer”

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”

—James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.”

—James Baldwin

“You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.”

—James Baldwin 

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ”

—James Baldwin

“You knew, didn't you, how I needed your language and the mind that formed it? How I relied on your fierce courage to tame wildernesses for me? How strengthened I was by the certainty that came from knowing you would never hurt me? You knew, didn't you, how I loved your love? You knew. This then is no calamity. No. This is jubilee. 'Our crown,' you said, 'has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do,' you said, 'is wear it.'”

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Toni Morrison on James Baldwin

Literally one of the most beautiful things I have ever read in my life. I won’t try to lie, some of this will probably end up in my vows.

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