James Baldwin
American · 1924–1987
American novelist and essayist whose eloquent explorations of race, sexuality, and identity made him one of the most important voices of the 20th century.
Wikipedia ↗“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also much more than that. So are we all.”
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“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”
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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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“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.”
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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
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“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
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“People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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