James Baldwin Quotes

"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."
-James Baldwin

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
-James Baldwin

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers."
-James Baldwin

"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."
-James Baldwin

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
-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 growing up."
-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."
-James Baldwin

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-James Baldwin