95 ordspråk av James Arthur Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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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.
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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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.
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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
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
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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.
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Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits
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Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
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