“The determined will is rare, but it is not invariably benevolent.” — James Baldwin, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown,” Esquire (July 1960)
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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, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown,” Esquire (July 1960)
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” — James Baldwin, “Telling Talk,” Life (01963-05-24)
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“The barrier between oneself and one’s knowledge of oneself is high indeed. There are so many things one would rather not know!” — James Baldwin, “The Creative Process,” Creative America
James Baldwin
James Baldwin.
December 24, 2021
3 passage Jacqueline de Romilly,
La Rochelle, France
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“If we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less.” — James Baldwin, “The Creative Process,” Creative America
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“It is absolutely inevitable that when a tradition has been evolved, whatever the tradition is, the people, in general, will suppose it to have existed from before the beginning of time and will be most unwilling and indeed unable to conceive of any changes in it. They do not know how they will live without those traditions that have given them their identity. Their reaction, when it is suggested that they can or that they must, is panic.” — James Baldwin, “The Creative Process,” Creative America
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“It is said that his time was easier than ours, but I doubt it — no time can be easy if one is living through it.” — James Baldwin, Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare
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“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — James Baldwin, No Name in the Street
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“What we call history is perhaps a way of avoiding responsibility for what has happened, is happening, in time.” — James Baldwin, A Rap on Race
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