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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
By James Baldwin
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
By James Baldwin
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
By James Baldwin
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
By James Baldwin
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
By James Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
By James Baldwin
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.
By James Baldwin
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.
By James Baldwin
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
By James Baldwin
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
By James Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
By James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
By James Baldwin
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
By James Baldwin
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
By James Baldwin
It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.
By James Baldwin
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
By James Baldwin
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
By James Baldwin
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
By James Baldwin
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
By James Baldwin