James Baldwin

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1924 age 0

   Born

2. 1987 age 63

   Died

3. 1992 age 63

   CreditMalcolm Xscreenwriter

• WFWilliam Fichtner1 title
• GEGiancarlo Esposito1 title
• FFFrances Foster1 title
• ABAngela Bassett1 title
• PBPeter Boyle1 title
• CPChristopher Plummer1 title
• AHAlbert Hall1 title
• KAKaren Allen1 title
• RCRuth E. Carter1 title
• LRLaTanya Richardson1 title

• Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

  James Baldwin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  James Baldwin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James Baldwin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I, for example, do not bring down property values when I move in. You bring them down when you move out.

  James Baldwin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Despair is a sin. I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are.

  James Baldwin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found — and it is found in terrible places. … For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James Baldwin, CC BY-SA 4.0