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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 15 quotes by James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions. Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time... Read full biography of James Baldwin → 1 2 Ctrl → 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. 0 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... → 0 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. 0 Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven... → 0 The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. 0 But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. 0 It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. 0 An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. 0 The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. 0 We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. 0 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... → 0 The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. 0 Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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