The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. James Baldwin excavateexperiencepeople Change image and share on social
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. James Baldwin admireamericaamerican Change image and share on social
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. James Baldwin arriveexperienceface Change image and share on social
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. James Baldwin kindpersonreal Change image and share on social
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. James Baldwin europeinexorablelife Change image and share on social
