James Baldwin Quote

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.


"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)


Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.