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James Baldwin

James Baldwin

American writer

Lived from: 1924 - 1987

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 2 august 1924 Died: 1 december 1987

  • The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
  • The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
  • If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
  • It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
  • Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
  • The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
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  • The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
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  • The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.
    ― James Baldwin
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