James A. Baldwin Quotes About Reality

• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Brother, Mean, Reality

  "El fuego de al lado". Libro de James A. Baldwin, 1963.

• Escribes para cambiar el mundo, sabiendo perfectamente que probablemente no puedas, pero sabiendo también que la literatura es indispensable para el mundo... El mundo cambia según cómo lo ve la gente, y si alteras, aunque sea un milímetro, la forma en que... la gente ve la realidad, entonces puedes cambiarlo.

  James A. Baldwin

  Cambio, Escritura, Realidad

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

• Escribes para cambiar el mundo... si alteras, aunque sea un milímetro, la forma en que la gente ve la realidad, entonces puedes cambiarla.

  James A. Baldwin

  Cambio, Escritura, Realidad

• It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.

  James A. Baldwin

  Helping Others, Reality, People

  "Carta desde una región de mi mente" de James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. 17 de noviembre de 1962.

• Las personas que cierran los ojos a la realidad simplemente invitan a su propia destrucción.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ojo, Realidad, Gente

  "Forastero en el pueblo". Ensayo de James A. Baldwin, publicado por primera vez en Harper's Magazine (1953), reeditado en James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), y citado posteriormente en "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'", de Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. 19 de agosto de 2014.

• El color no es una realidad humana o personal; es una realidad política.

  James A. Baldwin

  Realidad, Color, Política

  "Carta desde una región de mi mente" de James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. 17 de noviembre de 1962.

• A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right.

  James A. Baldwin

  Reality, Risk, Portraits

• People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

  James A. Baldwin

  Eye, Reality, Long

  "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.

• Tomamos nuestra forma, es cierto, dentro y contra esa jaula de realidad que nos legaron al nacer; y sin embargo, es precisamente a través de nuestra dependencia de esta realidad como somos traicionados más infinitamente.

  James A. Baldwin

  Truth, Reality, Shapes

• The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

  James A. Baldwin

  Reality, Artistic, Force

• In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims.

  James A. Baldwin

  Journey, Reality, Darkness

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