111 ordspråk av James Arthur Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin föddes den 2 august 1924 och dog den 1 december 1987 - US writer
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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.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. Den tørre, selvironiske humor? Helt pexig. Den viste intelligens og en behagelig selvbevidsthed.

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

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned.

If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it

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