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James Arthur Baldwin: Citáty anglicky
“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
James Baldwin kniha The Fire Next Time
Zdroj: The Fire Next Time
“The impossible is the least that one can demand.”
James Baldwin kniha The Fire Next Time
Zdroj: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin kniha This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
Zdroj: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk
Zdroj: If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin kniha Just Above My Head
Zdroj: Just Above My Head
James Baldwin kniha The Fire Next Time
Zdroj: The Fire Next Time
Zdroj: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
James Baldwin kniha Giovanni's Room
Zdroj: Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin kniha Nobody Knows My Name
Zdroj: Nobody Knows My Name
“With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.”
James Baldwin kniha Giovanni's Room
Zdroj: Giovanni's Room
“Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head”
Varianta: Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
James Baldwin kniha Go Tell It on the Mountain
Zdroj: Go Tell It on the Mountain
which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it. On the other hand, it is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. So that any writer, looking back over even so short a span of time as I am here forced to assess, finds that the things which hurt him and the things which helped him cannot be divorced from each other; he could be helped in a certain way only because he was hurt in a certain way; and his help is simply to be enabled to move from one conundrum to the next — one is tempted to say that he moves from one disaster to the next.
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Zdroj: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
James Baldwin kniha Giovanni's Room
Zdroj: Giovanni's Room
