JAMES A BALDWIN QUOTES

 All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

 I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian.

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 

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Art has to be a kind of confession. 

Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.