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.James Baldwin
Select James Baldwin Quotations
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin
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
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
James Baldwin
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
James Baldwin
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.
James Baldwin
All James Baldwin Quotations
Words
Beautiful,
Beauty,
Because,
Here,
Live,
Lived,
Lives,
Makes,
Sad,
South,
The South,
Ugly,
Very
Definitions
Beautiful,
Beauty,
Because,
Here,
Live,
Lived,
Lives,
Sad,
South,
Ugly,
Very
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
