95 ordspråk av James Arthur Baldwin

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James Arthur Baldwin föddes den 2 augustus 1924 och dog den 1 december 1987 - US writer
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 A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled

 American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

 Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

 Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

 Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

 Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

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

 Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

 Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

 Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses

 Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

 Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

 Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

 Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits

 Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.


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