It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
James BaldwinThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
James BaldwinStichwörter: art perception connection leopold-senghor
We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.
James BaldwinPeople are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.
James BaldwinStichwörter: american-dream 58 socioeconomic-failure
Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.
James BaldwinStichwörter: 71 reciprocity
Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out.
James BaldwinStichwörter: apathy escapism giving-up 57
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
James BaldwinIt happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.
James Baldwinbut the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from the other side.
James BaldwinThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.
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