Facts about James Baldwin

Occup.Educator
FromUSA
Died1925

Summary

James Baldwin was a famous Educator from USA.

Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by James.

Related authors: Maya Angelou (Poet), James A. Baldwin (Author)

15 Famous quotes by James Baldwin

Small: If youre treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to
"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"
Small: The reason people think its important to be white is that they think its important not to be black
"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black"
Small: The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, nec
"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"
Small: It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits
"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"
Small: We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied bel
"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours"
Small: The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and h
"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"
Small: The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine
"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"
Small: It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless
"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless"
Small: It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the India
"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"
Small: But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without moral
"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power"
Small: Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, i
"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"
Small: Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to ones beliefs, and the equal impossibility of
"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"
Small: An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience
"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience"
Small: The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him
"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him"
Small: The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other histor
"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"