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A liberal: someone who thinks...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The face of a lover is an unk...

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Children have never been very...

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Most of us are about as eager...

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Confronted with the impossibi...

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The writer's greed is appalli...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There is a 'sanctity' involve...

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

There are few things more dre...

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

Europe has what we do not hav...

Europe has what we 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

The question of sexual domina...

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The purpose of education...is...

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

The role of the artist is exa...

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It took many years of vomitin...

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

James Baldwin 434 quotes

It comes as a great shock…to ...

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

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

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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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....