82 Quotations by James Baldwin
- 61. The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
- 62. The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself ...
- 63. The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key t ...
- 64. The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
- 65. The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
- 66. The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by wa ...
- 67. The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
- 68. There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e ...
- 69. There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one ...
- 70. There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the m ...
- 71. To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citi ...
- 72. Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is ...
- 73. We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man ...
- 74. We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we ...
- 75. We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
- 76. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; a ...
- 77. What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astoundi ...
- 78. When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
- 79. When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I ...
- 80. Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare ...
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