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Rage can only with difficulty,...

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The primary distinction of the...

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.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Experience is a private, very ...

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The moment we break faith with...

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The future is like heaven-ever...

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

To be with God is really to be...

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Talent is insignificant. I kno...

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

We are responsible for the wor...

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There exists among the intoler...

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It demands great spiritual res...

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

An identity would seem to be a...

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Experience, which destroys inn...

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

In order to have a conversatio...

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The white man discovered the C...

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Our dehumanization of the Negr...

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Not only was I not born to be ...

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The making of an American begi...

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Any honest examination of the ...

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It is a very grave matter to b...

It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you.

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. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn't stay there any longer and had to go somewhere else to make it. That's all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not

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....