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The future is... black.James Baldwin - [Future]
James A. BaldwinThe only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power -- and no one holds power forever.
'Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.'
'People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.'
You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children on some idealism which you assure me is this America I have never seen!'
Baldwin, Democracy
'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.'
'People can cry much easier than they can change.'
'Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.'
'Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.'
'We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.'
The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.James Baldwin - [Education]
'When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.'
'A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.'
'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.'
'He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.'
'But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.'
'Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.'
'The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.'
'It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.'
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Baldwin - [Teams and Teamwork]
(another reason you must never worship a image of a god, given to you by your enemy! (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin - [Vocation]
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.James Baldwin - [Present]
We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.James Baldwin - [Gender]
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.James Baldwin - [Minorities]
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.James Baldwin - [Oppression]
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.James Baldwin - [Sexuality]
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.James Baldwin - [Conformity]
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.James Baldwin - [Immigration]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvhpGwDjct0
James A. BaldwinThe only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power -- and no one holds power forever.
'Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.'
'People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.'
You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children on some idealism which you assure me is this America I have never seen!'
Baldwin, Democracy
'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.'
'People can cry much easier than they can change.'
'Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.'
'Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.'
'We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.'
The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.James Baldwin - [Education]
'When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.'
'A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.'
'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.'
'He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.'
'But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.'
'Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.'
'The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.'
'It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.'
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Baldwin - [Teams and Teamwork]
(another reason you must never worship a image of a god, given to you by your enemy! (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.James Baldwin - [Vocation]
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.James Baldwin - [Present]
We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.James Baldwin - [Gender]
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.James Baldwin - [Minorities]
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.James Baldwin - [Oppression]
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.James Baldwin - [Sexuality]
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.James Baldwin - [Conformity]
The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.James Baldwin - [Immigration]
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