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James Baldwin
The price one...
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly...
The questions which...
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience...
Life is more...
Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.
Source: In...
Not everything that...
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
You know, it's...
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you...
The world is...
The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
The primary distinction...
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must...
The most dangerous...
The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose.
I want to...
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
Source: Notes of a Native Son,...
Any writer, I...
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the...
It is very...
It is very nearly impossible. . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent...
One can only...
One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
Source: In The Speaker's...
All art is...
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to...
You write in...
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that...
People pay for...
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very...
A child cannot...
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be...
The paradox of...
The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society...
Every legend, moreover,...
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe...
The world changes...
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way . . . people...
It is only...
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to...
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