James Baldwin Quotes on Life (6 Quotes)

Life is more important than art that's what makes art important.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

The Negro past of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape death and humiliation fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect rage, hatred and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

True rebels, after all, are as rare as true lovers, and, in both cases, to mistake a fever for a passion can destroy one's life.