Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

James Baldwin

Mots clés sex race nakedness

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

James Baldwin

Mots clés parenting role-models

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Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Mots clés love

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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin

Mots clés actions choices

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For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

James Baldwin

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Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.

James Baldwin

Mots clés from-giovanni-s-room

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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

James Baldwin

Mots clés pain compassion suffering

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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

James Baldwin

Mots clés liberty freedom

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I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.

I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

James Baldwin

Mots clés death existential

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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Baldwin

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