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James Baldwin книга The Fire Next Time
Вариант: 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.
Источник: The Fire Next Time
“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.”
James Baldwin книга The Fire Next Time
Источник: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin книга Nobody Knows My Name
"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
Вариант: Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Источник: Nobody Knows My Name
“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
James Baldwin книга The Fire Next Time
Источник: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin книга Nobody Knows My Name
Источник: Nobody Knows My Name
James Baldwin книга Going to Meet the Man
Источник: Going to Meet the Man
James Baldwin книга The Fire Next Time
Источник: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin книга The Fire Next Time
Источник: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin книга Notes of a Native Son
Вариант: I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
Источник: Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin книга Nobody Knows My Name
Источник: Nobody Knows My Name
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin книга Small Great Things
Also appears in Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things
Источник: In 1962 James Baldwin penned an essay titled “As Much Truth As One Can Bear” in “The New York Times Book Review”.
Контексте: 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 книга Another Country
Источник: 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)
Вариант: 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)
