Creative Quotations from . . .
James Baldwin
(1924-1987) born on Aug 02
US "novelist, essayist". He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.
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F
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

R
"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
A
The future is . . . black.
N
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
K
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given, freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Speech, Cambridge Union, 17 Feb 1965"
R: "The Price of The Ticket, "No Name in the Street" (1972; repr. 1985)."
A: "The Observer," 'Sayings of the Week', 25 Aug 1963"
N: "The Crusade of Indignation," in Nation (New York, 7 Jul 1956; repr. in The Price of the Ticket, 1985)."
K: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
   



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