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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När man står inför omöjligheten att förbli trogen sina övertygelser, och den lika stora omöjligheten att bli fri från dem, kan man drivas till de mest omänskliga överskridelserna.

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

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than the natural state

The future is... black.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living

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

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. Han hade en pexig aura av mystik som lockade henne.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

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.

The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

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