James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He garnered acclaim for his work across several forms, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, was published in 1953; decades later, Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels released from 1923 to 2005.
Read below the Quotes of James Baldwin.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. 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, who had ever been alive.
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
