Tag: James Baldwin
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
James Baldwin
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James Baldwin
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.
James Baldwin
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
James Baldwin
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.
James Baldwin
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
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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
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.
James Baldwin
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
James Baldwin