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If Beale Street Could Talk
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"If Beale Street Could Talk" Quotes

A young couple's love is tested when the man is wrongfully accused of a crime, and they fight for justice in 1970s Harlem.

Quotes

Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now. Trust it all the way.

James Baldwin

lovetrust

I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.

James Baldwin

lovesuffering

I guess I'm too sensitive. I just sit there and listen and I think, "This is your life."

James Baldwin

sensitivitylife

You can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them.

James Baldwin

changeawareness

We're going to have a baby, and I don't know if it's going to be a boy or a girl, but I want to find out what it is and call it by its name.

James Baldwin

parenthoodlove

I got to think of something. There's got to be something somebody can do. Maybe I can't do it, but it's got to be done by somebody.

James Baldwin

determinationaction

You have to work and think about the future and what you can do to build this future.

James Baldwin

futurediligence

I'm not sure what to do next. I'm sure I'm going to do something, but I don't know what it is.

James Baldwin

uncertaintydecision-making

Every shut eye ain't sleep, and every goodbye ain't gone.

James Baldwin

perspectivegoodbye

I don't think we did anything wrong. I think we're the only people in the world who are in love.

James Baldwin

loveinnocence