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Out Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always…
- Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you…
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
- The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity…
- He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform…
- We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,…
- Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
- One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
- Great art can only be created out of love.
- When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I…
- When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you…
- A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
- In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if…
- Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,…
- When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.
- The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
- Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
- People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized…
- The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the…
- The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is…
- 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 must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of…
- For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea…
- I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument,…
- The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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