If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
“...love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.”
“Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.”
“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there”
“It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.”
“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.”
“I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that I could do was cling to him. I did not realize, until I realized it, that I was also kissing him, that everything was breaking and changing and turning in me and moving toward him.”
“One of the most terrible, most mysterious things about a life is that a warning can be heeded only in retrospect: too late.”
“It's astounding the first time you realize that a stranger has a body - the realization that he has a body makes him a stranger. It means that you have a body, too. You will live with this forever, and it will spell out the language of your life.”
“We don’t know enough about ourselves. I think it’s better to know that you don’t know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that’s why so many people are so lost.”
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