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James Baldwin war einer der bedeutendsten US-amerikanischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, der weit über die Grenzen der Vereinigten Staaten hinaus bekannt wurde.Viele seiner Arbeiten behandeln Themen wie Rassismus und Sexualität. Seine Erzählungen sind berühmt für den persönlichen Stil, in dem Fragen der Identität von Schwarzen und Homosexuellen und damit verbundener sozialer und psychologischer Druck zur Sprache kommen, lange bevor die soziale, kulturelle oder politische Gleichstellung dieser Gruppen erkämpft wurde. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. August 1924 – 1. Dezember 1987  •  Andere Namen Џејмс Болдвин, Джеймс Болдуїн
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James Baldwin Berühmte Zitate

„Freiheit kann niemandem gegeben werden; Freiheit ist etwas, das Menschen sich nehmen, und Menschen sind so frei, wie sie es sein wollen.“

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„Ich denke mir, einer der Gründe dass Menschen sich so stur an ihren Hass klammern ist der, dass sie spüren, wenn der Hass erstmal weg ist, dass sie dann gezwungen sind, sich mit Schmerz auseinanderzusetzen.“

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„Liebe beginnt und endet nicht so, wie wir es uns vorstellen. Liebe ist eine Kampf, Liebe ist ein Krieg; Liebe ist ein Erwachsenwerden.“

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„Jeder, der schon einmal mit Armut zu kämpfen hatte, weiß, wie überaus teuer es ist, arm zu sein.“

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„Nicht alles, dem wir uns stellen, kann verändert werden. Aber nichts kann geändert werden, solange, bis wir uns ihm stellen.“

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„Kinder waren noch nie sehr gut darin, den Älteren zuzuhören, aber sie haben es nie versäumt, sie nachzuahmen.“

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“There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.”

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“Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.”

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James Baldwin

“The impossible is the least that one can demand.”

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James Baldwin buch The Fire Next Time

Quelle: The Fire Next Time

“History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.”

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“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”

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James Baldwin buch This Morning, This Evening, So Soon

Quelle: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon

“Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”

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“But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.”

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“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”

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“Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.”

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James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk

Quelle: If Beale Street Could Talk

“I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years”

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James Baldwin buch Just Above My Head

Quelle: Just Above My Head

“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”

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James Baldwin buch The Fire Next Time

Quelle: The Fire Next Time

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to bein all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”

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James Baldwin buch The Fire Next Time

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“Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.”

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Quelle: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985

“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

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James Baldwin buch Giovanni's Room

Quelle: Giovanni's Room

“Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.”

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James Baldwin buch Nobody Knows My Name

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“With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.”

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James Baldwin buch Giovanni's Room

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“Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head”

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Variante: Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it

“There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.”

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James Baldwin buch Go Tell It on the Mountain

Quelle: Go Tell It on the Mountain

“People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.”

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“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent”

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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)

“The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.”

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Quelle: 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.”

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James Baldwin buch Giovanni's Room

Quelle: Giovanni's Room

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