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James Baldwin (Writer)

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 you whether they're real or not.
— James Baldwin you
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 art
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
— James Baldwin power
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 education
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
— James Baldwin man
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 beauty
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
— James Baldwin faith
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.
— James Baldwin life
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 time
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
— James Baldwin people
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
— James Baldwin experience
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
— James Baldwin people
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 belief
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.
— James Baldwin history
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
— James Baldwin world
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
— James Baldwin change
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
— James Baldwin change
If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real theyre real for you whether theyre real or not.
— James Baldwin you
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
— James Baldwin books

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