James Baldwin quotes about faith & the church
54 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as James Baldwin wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 316 in the full collection. Page 3 of 3.
The Fire Next Time quotes
The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass, and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can.
Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets its teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals the foundations on which any kingdom rests, and eats at those foundations, and it destroys doctrines by proving them to be untrue.
One cannot argue with anyone's experience or decision or belief.
Therefore, to state it in another, more accurate way, I became, during my fourteenth year, for the first time in my life, afraid—afraid of the evil within me and afraid of the evil without.
From the books
Every book with a quote collection of its own, each line verified against the text.
- Giovanni's Room quotes · 76 lines (1956)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain quotes · 59 lines (1953)
- If Beale Street Could Talk quotes · 41 lines (1974)
- Notes of a Native Son quotes · 76 lines (1955)
- The Fire Next Time quotes · 46 lines (1963)
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