Creative Quotations from . . .
James Baldwin
(1924-1987) born on Aug 02
US "novelist, essayist". He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.
 
   
F
It is very nearly impossible. . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

R
One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.
A
"All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up."
N
"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world . . ."
K
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""They Can't Turn Back," in "Mademoiselle," Aug 1960; repr. in "The Price of the Ticket," 1985)."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: "In "W.O.W. - Writers on Writing," by Jon Winokur, 1990."
N: "From "Ashleys" collection of quotations found on the Internet"
K: ""Nobody Knows My Name," 1961"
   



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