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James Arthur Baldwin Quotes
«Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
adds, delude, deludes, deluding, dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, rage, strengthens, thoughtless
«Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Desire,
Fear
| Keywords:
affliction, crutch, crutches, desirable, divest, divested, frightening, released
«Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
definition, imagines, purity, unassailable
«Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned.»
«If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
brothers, fleeing, integration, with love
«Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.»
«When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
asks, balance, insane, proves, reasonably, sensible, somewhat
«The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Glory,
Love,
Spirit
| Keywords:
attracted, noblest, strongly
«Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Earth,
Life
| Keywords:
go down, inexorably, rises, tragic