Quotes About Trust

I am too various to be trusted. If this were not so I would not be alone in this house tonight.

One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself—that is to say, risking oneself.

But the fact that I had said it as he held my hand made it sound to me unutterably helpless and soft and coy.

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience.

It is the responsibility of free men to trust and to celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change. I speak of change not on the surface but in the depths—change in the sense of renewal. But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not—safety, for example, or money, or power.

You don't know what he means by friendship but you have the feeling it may not be safe. You are afraid it may change you. What kind of friendship have you had?

Negroes know about each other what can here be called family secrets. And this means that one negro, if he wishes, can knock the other's hustle, can give his game away.

I have seen and heard and endured the secrets of desperate white men and women, which they knew were safe with me, because even if I should speak, no one would believe me.

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there really is no limit to where you can go.

We were a part of each other, flesh of each other's flesh-which meant that we so took each other for granted that we never thought of the flesh.

Where you lead me, I said, I'll follow. He laughed. Baby. Baby. Baby. I love you. And I'm going to build us a table and a whole lot of folks going to be eating off it for a long, long time to come.

they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

Reading a Baldwin sentence can feel like recreating thought itself. One has to take hands off the rudder and trust the river of thought as it flows.

The Lord had given her what she said she wanted, as was often, she had found, His bewildering method of answering prayer.

We're going to sit down somewhere until this rush hour's over. You and me, we've got to talk anyway, before we talk to Mama and Daddy. They don't know yet. I haven't talked to them yet." And I realize how much Ernestine loves me, at the same time that I remember that she is, after all, only four years older than I.

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

We're all bastards. That's why we need our friends.

We're all bastards. That's why we need our friends.

hands which would have the power to crush me and make me whole again.

I've known him all my life and I hope I always know him.

The blacks now suspected him of being an ally—though not a friend, never a friend!

For a woman,' she said, 'I think a man is always a stranger. And there's something awful about being at the mercy of a stranger.

Fighting will not make you stay. In French, we have what is called une séparation de corps—not a divorce, you understand, just a separation. Well. We will separate. But I know you belong with me. I believe, I must believe—that you will come back.