Wisdom quotes by James Arthur Baldwin

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Quotes by James Arthur Baldwin in Wisdom category:

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"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."
"You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it."
"The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
"The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."