James Baldwin
10 quotes
“Negroes Are Anti”
“The American Dream and the American Negro”
“Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?”
“Doom and glory of knowing who you are”
“One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found”
“Despair is a sin. I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are. Interview with M. S. Handler of the New York Times (3 June 1964), quoted in 'Demand For Presidential Lead On U.S. Race Issue', The Times (4 June 1963), p. 10”
“The Cross of Redemption”
“As Much Truth As One Can Bear”
“The Creative Process”
“are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.”