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.


The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (ed. Vintage, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307378965

James Baldwin Quotes

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 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 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 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...