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James Baldwin — Portrait after a picture by Allan warren (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

The quotations of

James Baldwin

American writer

1924–1987

20 quotes, most often on Race, God and Freedom.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
“Letter from a Region of My Mind”
- Anti-Religion
- Christianity
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
“Stranger in the Village”
- Faith
Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
“An interview with James Baldwin” (1961)
- Art
- Life & Death
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.
“Autobiographical Notes” (1952)
- Writing
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.
“The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman” in Esquire (April 1960); republished as “The Northern Protestant”, also in The Price of the Ticket (1985)
- Art

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