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Schriftsteller, einer der profiliertesten schwarzen Autoren, "Giovannis Zimmer", "Gehe hin und verkünde es vom Berge" (USA, 1924 - 1987).

James Baldwin · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

James Baldwin wäre heute 100 Jahre, 4 Monate, 19 Tage oder 36.666 Tage alt.

Geboren am 02.08.1924 in New York
Gestorben am 01.12.1987 in St. Paul de Vence/Frankreich
Sternzeichen: ♌ Löwe

• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

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• 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.

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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.

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• Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated.

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• Heroes can be found less in large things than in small ones, less in public than in private.

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• I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

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• If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

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• If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

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• If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, recreated from the Bible in song by slave, is upon us : / God gave Noah the rainbow sign, / No more water, the fire next time!

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• It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6 or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, 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.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

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• Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

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• Not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

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• Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptile to any arguments whatsoever.

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• The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

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• The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

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• The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

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• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

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• To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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• Which of us can overcome his past?

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