James Baldwin Quotes

Your crown has been bought and paid for. All you must do is put it on. - James Baldwin

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. - James Baldwin

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. - James Baldwin

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. - James Baldwin

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. - James Baldwin

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

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. - James Baldwin

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. - James Baldwin

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. - James Baldwin

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. - James Baldwin

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