Quotes by James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

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“Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.”
— James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
inspirational religion-christianity spirituality

“But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the jo...”
— James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
experience growth maturity perspective

“It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when Jo...”
— James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
angst identity identity-confusion identity-crisis

“Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there.”
— James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
believe remember saved