Quotes by James Baldwin

James Baldwin

James Baldwin

American writer

Lived from: 1924 - 1987

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 2 august 1924 Died: 1 december 1987

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  • 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.
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  • The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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  • The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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  • 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.
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  • The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.
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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 primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
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  • The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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  • The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
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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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  • The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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  • The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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  • The trick is to love somebody... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
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  • 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.
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  • There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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  • There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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  • There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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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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  • There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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