Quotes by James Baldwin with society

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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  • A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
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  • I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
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  • Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
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  • The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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