TOP 10 James Baldwin quotes

10

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

9

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

8

All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart.

7

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

6

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

5

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

4

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

3

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

2

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

1

In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.