The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the…

James A. Baldwin
288 citations
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ✨ The Fire Next Time. Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.
Hope Reading Time
24

More Author Quotes

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. ✨ Notes of a Native Son. Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.n … ▶
Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in … ▶
To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] . . . the second . . . that one mu … ▶
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducibl … ▶
Tell me, he said, What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for? Well […] I guess people wait … ▶

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ✨ The Fire Next Time. Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes