- 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. - James Baldwin, 1955
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. - James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955
- I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with the pain. - James Baldwin, 1955
- I want to be an honest man and a good writer. - James Baldwin, 1955
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin, 1961
- There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. - James Baldwin, 1961
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