James A. Baldwin Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Clay, Cracks

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

• The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Long, Horrible

• The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Men, Black

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