4 James Baldwin Quotes on Humanity

James Baldwin quotes on humanity

7. Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

24. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

30. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

48. People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.