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Everything in life depends on...

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

James Baldwin 434 quotes

What passes for identity in A...

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

If one cannot risk oneself, t...

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

I love America more than any ...

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Confusion is a luxury which o...

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Unless a writer is extremely ...

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

When you're writing you're tr...

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The artistic image is not int...

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Societies never know it, but ...

Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Everything now, we must assum...

Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Youth must be the worst time ...

Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

He may be a very nice man. Bu...

He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Most of us are about as eager...

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

America sometimes resembles, ...

America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same jokes. One has done (or been) the show so long that one can do it in one’s own sleep.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

But to look back from the sto...

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

History is not a procession o...

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Those kids aren't dumb. But t...

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

I am certainly convinced that...

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Rage cannot be hidden, it can...

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

After my best friend jumped o...

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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