James Baldwin Quotes

James Baldwin — American Educator

James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions. Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds Work... (wikipedia)

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

James Baldwin Quotes

James Baldwin Quotes

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