“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read.”— James Baldwin, "Autobiographical Notes," 1952Share
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”— James BaldwinShare
“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”— James BaldwinShare
“Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.”— James BaldwinShare