James Baldwin słynne cytaty
„Płacz przychodzi ludziom znacznie łatwiej niż zmiana.”
People can cry much easier than they can change. (ang.)
James Baldwin: Cytaty po angielsku
James Baldwin książka The Fire Next Time
Wariant: To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
Źródło: The Fire Next Time
“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
James Baldwin książka The Fire Next Time
Źródło: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin książka Nobody Knows My Name
"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
Wariant: Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Źródło: Nobody Knows My Name
“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
James Baldwin książka The Fire Next Time
Źródło: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin książka Nobody Knows My Name
Źródło: Nobody Knows My Name
James Baldwin książka Going to Meet the Man
Źródło: Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin książka The Fire Next Time
Źródło: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin książka The Fire Next Time
Źródło: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin książka Notes of a Native Son
Wariant: I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
Źródło: Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin książka Nobody Knows My Name
Źródło: Nobody Knows My Name
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin książka Small Great Things
Also appears in Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things
Źródło: In 1962 James Baldwin penned an essay titled “As Much Truth As One Can Bear” in “The New York Times Book Review”.
Kontekst: We are the generation that must throw everything into the endeavor to remake America into what we say we want it to be. Without this endeavor, we will perish. ... Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
“You took the best, so why not take the rest?”
James Baldwin książka Another Country
Źródło: Another Country
“You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.”
Interview with Julius Lester, "James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick" in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
Wariant: You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.
"The Harlem Ghetto" in Commentary (February 1948); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Truce, by the way, is the best one can hope for.
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
"Stranger in the Village," Harper's (October 1953); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
"The Hard Kind of Courage" in Harper's (October 1958) republished as "A Fly in Buttermilk" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
"The American Dream and the American Negro" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-dream.html in The New York Times (7 March 1965)
