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If one cannot risk oneself, th...

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

James Baldwin 434 quotes

To be born in a free society a...

To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens and co-Christians that you have no value, no history, have never done anything that is worthy of human respect destroys you because in the beginning you believe it.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The miracle is that some have ...

The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The real victim of bigotry is ...

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Words like 'freedom', 'justice...

Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous, and above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

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

The paradox of education is pr...

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Everything in life depends on ...

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

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Society is held together by ou...

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The trick is to love somebody....

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

When human rights are abused o...

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Perhaps the whole root of our ...

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

People can't, unhappily, inven...

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It is rare indeed that people ...

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

All art is a kind of confessio...

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

We take our shape, it is true,...

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

True rebels after all, are as ...

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Know from whence you came. If ...

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

We should certainly know by no...

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

We have all had the experience...

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

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

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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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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....