Quotes by James Baldwin

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. (James Baldwin)

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. (James Baldwin)

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.. (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)

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)

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)

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. (James Baldwin)

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. (James Baldwin)

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up. (James Baldwin)

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. (James Baldwin)