Quotes: James Baldwin

"The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it."

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

Source: Nitch, Instagram, April 15, 2023 

via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 25.

Quotes: James Baldwin

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

Quotes: James Baldwin

"You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, and not with its idea of you."

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

Quotes: James Baldwin

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers." 

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook, 2017 a, p. 41. 

Quotes: James Baldwin

"Artists are here to disturb the peace." 

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 128.

Quotes: James Baldwin

"and he who finds no way to rest cannot long survive the battle."  

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

via: Sketchbook 30, 2017, p. 40. 

Quotes: James Baldwin

"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety." 

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

Quotes: James Baldwin

"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 always changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimetre, the way... people look at reality, then you can change it."

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

Quotes: James Baldwin

"Throw everything out of your mind...read a little, sleep. The world will still be here when you wake up, and there'll still be everything left to do."

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

via: Nitch on Instagram, September 19, 2022

Black History quotes: James Baldwin

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." 

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist