“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin Quotes
1924 – 1987
American novelist and essayist, author of "Notes of a Native Son".
25 quotesAbout James Baldwin on Wikipedia
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.”
“Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
“If you don't know what happened behind you, you've no idea of what is happening around you.”
“Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker, and so you can stand less and less.”
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
“The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe.”
“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read.”
“There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
“Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it.”
“Close up, the person's imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own.”
“People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become.”
