American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Baldwin quote Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
James Baldwin quote A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Baldwin quote Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
James Baldwin quote Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James Baldwin quote The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers
James Baldwin quote Biography
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