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James Baldwin - From the Change category:
- b.1924 d.1987...
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. (James Baldwin)
James Baldwin - From the Confession category:
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. (James Baldwin)
James Baldwin - From the Culture category:
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. (James Baldwin)
James Baldwin - From the Future category:
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. (James Baldwin)
James Baldwin - From the Importance category:
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. (James Baldwin)
James Baldwin - From the Life category:
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. (James Baldwin)
James Baldwin - From the Profession category:
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. (James Baldwin)
James Baldwin - From the Solitude category:
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)
James Baldwin - From the Travel category:
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. (James Baldwin)
James Baldwin - From the Writing category:
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. (James Baldwin)
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