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Famous James A. Baldwin Quotes
“The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.”
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”
“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
“Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.”
“The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.”
“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.”
“A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.”
“A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.”
“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”