James A Baldwin Quotes 2
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James A Baldwin | 2 August 1924 | 1 December 1987 | American | David Baldwin | Emma Berdis Jones | Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Activist | An essayist, playwright and novelist regarded as a highly insightful, iconic writer with works like The Fire Next Time and Another Country. |
A list of popular James A Baldwin quotes are given below.
"If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody." - James A Baldwin
"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in." - James A Baldwin
"Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society." - James A Baldwin
"No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide." - James A Baldwin
"Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being." - James A Baldwin
"Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both." - James A Baldwin
"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him." - James A Baldwin