The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James Baldwin
More from: James Baldwin
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America. -
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. -
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny. -
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. -
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
More quotes by James Baldwin
- 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.
- The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
- The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
- An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
- But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.