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I met a lot of people in Euro...

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Freaks are called freaks and ...

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Experience is a private, very...

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Sometimes you hear a person s...

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The South is very beautiful bu...

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 434 quotes

I was guilty and irritated and...

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Well,' I said, 'Paris is old, ...

Well,' I said, 'Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn't what you feel in New York Ђ' 'He was smiling. I stopped. 'What do you feel in New York?' he asked. 'Perhaps you feel,' I told him, 'all the time to come. There's such power there, everything is in such movement. You can't help wonderingЂ'I can't help wonderingЂ'what it will all be likeЂ' many years from now.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

You think your pain and your h...

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Sometimes you hear a person sp...

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

One writes out of one thing on...

One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It must be remembered that in ...

It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an 'integrationist' - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a 'racist in reverse.' This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be 'racists,' for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which ma

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The role of the artist is exac...

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The world tends to trap you in...

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

When the book comes out it may...

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

People who remember court madn...

People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

To ask questions of the univer...

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Freaks are called freaks and a...

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated Ђ' in the main, abominably Ђ' because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There is no reason for you to ...

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they* must accept *you*. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

I don't know, now, when I firs...

I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at onceЂ'I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Ri...

Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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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...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....