No man is a devil in his own mind.
James BaldwinThe price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James BaldwinThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
James BaldwinIf one wishes to be instructed--not that anyone does--concerning the treacherous role that memory plays in a human life, consider how relentlessly the water of memory refuses to break, how it impedes that journey into the air of time. Time: the whisper beneath that word is death. With this unanswerable weight hanging heavier and heavier over one's head, the vision becomes cloudy, nothing is what it seems...
How then, can I trust my memory concerning that particular Sunday afternoon?...Beneath the face of anyone you ever loved for true--anyone you love, you will always love, love is not at the mercy of time and it does not recognize death, they are strangers to each other--beneath the face of the beloved, however ancient, ruined, and scarred, is the face of the baby your love once was, and will always be, for you. Love serves, then, if memory doesn't, and passion, apart from its tense relation to agony, labors beneath the shadow of death. Passion is terrifying, it can rock you, change you, bring your head under, as when a wind rises from the bottom of the sea, and you're out there in the craft of your mortality, alone.
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
James BaldwinThe impossible is the least that one can demand.
James BaldwinPeople don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.
James BaldwinMoney, iit turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of otherthings if you did.
James BaldwinThe American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
James BaldwinStichwörter: difference uniqueness americans similarities
It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.
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