Tag: James Baldwin
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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
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
James Baldwin
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Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James Baldwin
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Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James Baldwin
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James Baldwin
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
James Baldwin
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James Baldwin
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin