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Quotes by James Baldwin

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
– 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 a growing up.
– James Baldwin
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
– James Baldwin
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
– James Baldwin
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
– James Baldwin
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
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.
– James Baldwin
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
– James Baldwin
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
– James Baldwin