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James Baldwin Quotes

James Baldwin quotes about life

American Educator, Writer August 6, 1924 – November 30, 1987

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One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. James Baldwin
In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others. James Baldwin
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. James Baldwin
James Baldwin quote: "The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder..."
The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art James Baldwin
James Baldwin quote: "This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out..."
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. James Baldwin
James Baldwin quote: "True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both..."
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life James Baldwin
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. James Baldwin
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all. James Baldwin
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. James Baldwin

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