Baldwin

Famous quotes containing the word baldwin:

“The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)