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There is a fearful splendor in...

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The victim who is able to arti...

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

No man is a devil in his own m...

No man is a devil in his own mind.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

I think that the inability to ...

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The impossible is the least th...

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

People don't have any mercy. T...

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It comes as a great shock to d...

It comes as a great shock to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The American ideal is, after a...

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Please try to remember that wh...

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

James Baldwin 434 quotes

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

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

In my case, I think my exile s...

In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is, simply, this: a man is not a man until he is able and willing to accept his own vision of the world, no matter how radically this vision departs from others.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There are too many things we d...

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

For these are all our children...

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

You've got to tell the world h...

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

To hold in the mind forever tw...

To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first . . . acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] . . . the second . . . that one must never, in one's life, accept . . . injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The civilized have created the...

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their 'vital interests' are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the 'sanctity' of human life, or the 'conscience' of the civilized world.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It is a terrible, an inexorabl...

It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

I am aware that no man is a vi...

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The responsibility of a writer...

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

One cannot deny the humanity o...

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

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...

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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...

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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...

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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....