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James Baldwin

1924-1987. American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain".

1. "When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself."

source: "A Dialogue"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Pain and Tears

2. "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."

source: "The Price of the Ticket"

categories: Human -:- Various

3. "The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models."

source: "Nobody Knows My Name"

categories: Youth and Age

4. "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."

source: "A Dialogue"

categories: Optimism and Hope

5. "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Various

6. "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is battle, love is a war; love is growing up."

categories: Love

7. "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

source: "The Price of the Ticket"

categories: Justice -:- Power and Weakness -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

8. "I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one."

categories: Human -:- Various

9. "Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. "

categories: Freedom and Servitude

10. "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 sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

source: "Nobody Knows My Name"

categories: History and Nations -:- Various

11. "Art has to be a kind of confession."

categories: Art and Culture


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