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To be a Negro in this country...

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Nobody is more dangerous than...

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Money, it turned out, was exa...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

When a man asks himself what ...

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The primary distinction of th...

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

Hatred, which could destroy s...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

People can cry much easier th...

People can cry much easier than they can change.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It was books that taught me t...

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It is dangerous to be an Amer...

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

What passes for identity in A...

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 seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Precisely at the point when y...

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Love takes off the masks that...

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Talent is insignificant. I kn...

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 wo...

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

A liberal: someone who thinks...

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

James Baldwin 434 quotes

To accept one’s past – one’s ...

To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Freedom is not something that...

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There are so many ways of bei...

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It demands great spiritual re...

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

I love America more than any ...

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

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

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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....