“Write a Sentence as Clean as a Bone” And Other Advice from James Baldwin
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James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
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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
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.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Baldwin understood the singular importance of the novel, because he saw the dilemma his country faced as essentially an interior one, as his fellow citizens suffered from a poison that began in the individual spirit and then made its way into politics
Colm Tóibín • The Private Life: On James Baldwin - The Paris Review
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