“Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone” And Other Advice from James Baldwin
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
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James Baldwin on the difficulty of change:
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
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James Baldwin - The Struggle of The Artist (1969)
youtu.beIn the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to look back; but I think that the past is all that makes the present coherent, and further, that the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.
James Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
I truly had not realized that Harlem had so many stores until I saw them all smashed open; the first time the word wealth ever entered my mind in relation to Harlem was when I saw it scattered in the streets. But one’s first, incongruous impression of plenty was countered immediately by an impression of waste. None of this was doing anybody any goo
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
The writer James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”