Best Quotes by James Baldwin (Top 8)

  1. People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
  2. No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
  3. The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
  4. The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
  5. Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
  6. The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
  7. Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
  8. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.