95 ordspråk av James Arthur Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
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The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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The future is... black.
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The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
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