James A. Baldwin Quotes - Page 6

• It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.

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  Passion, Darkness, Sake

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

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• 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.

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  Brother, Mean, Reality

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

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• Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

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  House, Burning, Want

  The Fire Next Time (1963)

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• Quizá el hogar no sea un lugar, sino simplemente una condición irrevocable.

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  Inicio, Irrevocable, Condiciones

  "La habitación de Giovanni". Libro de James A. Baldwin (Parte 2), www.newyorker.com. 1956.

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• Nacer en una sociedad libre y no nacer libre es nacer en una mentira. Que los conciudadanos y los cocristianos te digan que no tienes valor, que no tienes historia, que nunca has hecho nada que merezca respeto humano, te destruye porque al principio te lo crees.

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  Cristiano, Mentir, Creer

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• But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

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  Power, Morality, Subtle

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• Cualquier cambio real implica la ruptura del mundo tal y como uno lo ha conocido siempre, la pérdida de todo lo que le daba identidad, el fin de la seguridad. Y en un momento así, incapaz de ver y sin atreverse a imaginar lo que deparará ahora el futuro, uno se aferra a lo que sabía, o soñaba que poseía. Sin embargo, sólo cuando un hombre es capaz, sin amargura ni autocompasión, de renunciar a un sueño que ha acariciado durante mucho tiempo o a un privilegio que ha poseído durante mucho tiempo, se libera -se ha liberado- para sueños más elevados, para mayores privilegios.

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  Ruptura, Sueño, Real

  "Nadie sabe mi nombre: Más notas de un hijo nativo". Libro de James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Black

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• There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

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  Believe, Writing, Important

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• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

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  Hombres, Pensamiento, Orden

  "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book translated by Milton Waldman. Chapter 12: "Conversation with Jean Martet", 1930.

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• El hombre blanco descubrió la Cruz a través de la Biblia, pero el hombre negro descubrió la Biblia a través de la Cruz.

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  Hombres, Hombre Blanco, Justicia

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• 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.

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  Eye, Reality, Long

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

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• No se pueden encender fuegos con brasas muertas, ni avivar el entusiasmo con hombres sin espíritu. El entusiasmo en nuestro trabajo diario aligera el esfuerzo y convierte incluso el trabajo en tareas agradables.

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  Work, Men, Fire

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• La identidad parece ser la prenda con la que se cubre la desnudez de uno mismo: en ese caso, es mejor que la prenda sea holgada, un poco como las túnicas del desierto, a través de las cuales siempre se puede sentir la propia desnudez y, a veces, discernirla. Esta confianza en la propia desnudez es lo único que le da a uno el poder de cambiar de túnica.

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  Cambio, Ser, Dar

  "El diablo encuentra trabajo". Libro de James A. Baldwin, 1976.

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• There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.

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  Wish, Knows

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

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• Cualquier cambio real implica la ruptura del mundo tal y como uno lo ha conocido siempre, la pérdida de todo lo que le daba identidad, el fin de la seguridad.

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  Cambio, Ruptura, Real

  "Nadie sabe mi nombre: Más notas de un hijo nativo". Libro de James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

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  Winning, Space, Choices

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• Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

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  Believe, Desire Love, Wish

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• No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

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  People, Culture, Literature

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• To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

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  Life, One Day, Oneself

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• A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

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  Artist, Heaven, Assuming

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• Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

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  Suicidal, Self, Hatred

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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.

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  Country, African American, Literature

  "A race riot forever changed my city. Hollywood only told half the story" by Bankole Thompson, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2017.

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• For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

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  Children, Pay, Profit

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• A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

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  Riesgo

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