James A. Baldwin Quotes - Page 16

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• The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to end the racial nightmare and acheive our country.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Order, Lovers

  "Another Country" by Claudia Roth Pierpont, www.newyorker.com. February 9, 2009.

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• Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx.

  James A. Baldwin

  New York, Wall, Mistake

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• The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

  James A. Baldwin

  Failure, Thinking, Lines

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  One Day, Earth, Lasts

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Honesty, Men, Literature

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

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