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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

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

A ghetto can be improved in on...

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Americans, unhappily, have the...

Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The establishment of democracy...

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 Baldwin 434 quotes

It is a very rare man who does...

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The greatest significance of t...

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Europe has what we [Americans]...

Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

What passes for identity in Am...

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

James Baldwin 434 quotes

To be black and conscious in A...

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

An American Negro, however dee...

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There was no room in God's arm...

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

James Baldwin 434 quotes

... every human being is an un...

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

A liberal: someone who thinks ...

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

James Joyce is right about his...

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

This world is white no longer,...

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Negro servants have been smugg...

Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It seems to be typical of life...

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Unless a writer is extremely o...

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

A writer has to take all the r...

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, 'I don't look like that.Ђќ And Picasso replied, 'You will.Ђќ And he was right.

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...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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....