James Baldwin best Failure Quotes – “The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.”
James Baldwin best Experience Quotes – “An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.”
James Baldwin best Experience Quotes – “We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.”
James Baldwin best Experience Quotes – “The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.”
James Baldwin best Experience Quotes – “The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.”
James Baldwin best Education Quotes – “Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.”
James Baldwin best Education Quotes – “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.”
James Baldwin best Change Quotes – “People can cry much easier than they can change.”
James Baldwin best Beauty Quotes – “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.”
James Baldwin best Alone Quotes – “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 best Age Quotes – “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.”