James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.... See more
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.... See more
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The Creative Process
The text explores the artist's role in society, emphasizing the necessity of confronting aloneness, truth, and societal changes to create a more humane world while reflecting on the complexities of identity and history.
openspaceofdemocracy.wordpress.com“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
—James Baldwin
—James Baldwin