James Baldwin Quotes

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

What I love best in life is new starts.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

I'm a beginning, not an end.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.

I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.

Every day brings new choices.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

In earnest, my dear brother, I am sorry for you from the bottom of my soul. Take my advice, and turn Huron; for I see plainly a vast difference between your condition and mine. I am master of my own body, I have the absolute disposal of myself, I do what I please.

Every day is another something that comes along.

I've always been a firm believer that you don't have to close one door in order to open another.

Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you can step out into that morning sunrise and know, from our American example, that life does not have to be the way it is for you.