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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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  • Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
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  • Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
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  • I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
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  • 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.
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  • The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
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  • The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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  • The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
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  • There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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  • Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
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  • We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
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  • You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
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  • You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are (1963)
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What are the most famous quotes from James Baldwin?

The two most famous quotes from James Baldwin are:

  • "Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety."
  • "Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

When did James Baldwin live?

James Baldwin was born in 1924 and died in the year 1987.