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| 428cb18 | The poor are always crossing the Sahara. And the lawyers and bondsmen and all that crowd circle around the poor, exactly like vultures. Of course, they're not any richer than the poor, really, that's why they've turned into vultures, scavengers, indecent garbage men, and I'm talking about the black cats, too, who, in so many ways, are worse. | James Baldwin | ||
| 3fbbc9e | but no one was interested in the facts. They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. | hatred truth fake-news | James Baldwin | |
| 7f2ae52 | Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. -Benjamin Franklin Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. -James Baldwin She wore an expression I've only seen in paintings in museums, of a love and a grief so fierce that they forged together to create some new, raw emotion. There are two types of people who become public defenders: those who bel.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b7a891c | Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore. | James Baldwin | ||
| 092e29d | It's the only light we've got in all this darkness | memorable short-story | James Baldwin | |
| d2d0cac | I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. | James Baldwin | ||
| 8765426 | In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies. | James Baldwin | ||
| a1bc147 | It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less. | James Baldwin | ||
| e6ab875 | Sanirim iki insanin hem gulmesi hem sevismesi, guldukleri icin sevismeleri ve sevistikleri icin gulmeleri pek az rastlanir bir durumdur. Sevmek ve gulmek hep ayni yerden gelir de, o noktaya pek cok kisi erisemez. | James Baldwin | ||
| 06105dd | Elisha,' he said, 'no matter what happens to me, where I go, what folks say about me, no matter what anybody says, you remember - please remember - I was saved. I was there. | saved remember | James Baldwin | |
| ad00d7f | But, Cass, ask yourself, look out and ask yourself - wouldn't you hate all white people if they kept you in prison here?' They were rolling up startling Seventh Avenue. The entire population seemed to be in the streets, draped, almost, from lamp-posts, stoops, and hydrants, and walking through the traffic as though it were not there. 'Kept you here, and stunted you and starved you, and made you watch your mother and father and sister and lo.. | James Baldwin | ||
| 8540995 | We are in the middle of an immense metamorphosis here, a metamorphosis which will, it is devoutly to be hoped, rob us of our myths and give us our history, which will destroy our attitudes and give us back our personalities. The mass culture, in the meantime, can only reflect our chaos: and perhaps we had better remember that this chaos contains life--and a great transforming energy. | James Baldwin | ||
| b2e98d8 | Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence;.. | James Baldwin | ||
| b7f527f | Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now--all over a globe which has never been and never will be White--my countrymen become childishly vindictive and unutterably dangerous. The | James Baldwin | ||
| 469c792 | Sometimes, when he was not near me, I thought, I will never let him 'Touch' me again. Then, when he 'Touched' me, I thought, it doesn't matter, it is only the body, it will soon be over. When it was over, I lay in the dark and listened to his breathing and dreamed of the 'Touch' of hands, of Giovanni's hands, or anybody's hands, hands which would have the power to crush me and make me whole again. | sex feelings love crush homosexual touch | James Baldwin | |
| 6c3e9b7 | We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become | personality psychoanalysis | James Baldwin | |
| 8caf5de | I had to get out of there for my face showed too much, the war in my body was dragging me down. My feet refused to carry me over to him again. The wind of my life was blowing me away. | life leave-taking giovanni-s-room james-baldwin inner-turmoil goodbye separation sad | James Baldwin | |
| 4fe2230 | I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present level of American civilisation. I am far from convinced that being released from the African witch doctor was worthwhile if I am now - in order to support the moral contradictions and the spiritual aridity of my life - expected to become dependent on the American psychiatrist. It is a bargain I refus.. | equality race psychiatry | James Baldwin | |
| 5b2f3fc | He grins again, and everything inside me moves. Oh, love. Love. | romance | James Baldwin | |
| 2432910 | This was not the man they had known, but they had scarcely expected to be confronted with ; this was, in a sense deeper than questions of fact, the man they had not known, and the man they had not known may have been the real one. The real man, whoever he had been, had suffered and now he was dead: this was all that was sure and all that mattered now. | James Baldwin | ||
| 87d729a | Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox. | politics religion speech | James Baldwin | |
| d84670d | You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. | James Baldwin | ||
| 83239c3 | Now, from this night, this coming morning, no matter how many beds I find myself in between now and my final bed, I shall never be able to have any more of those boyish, zestful affairs--which are, really, when one thinks of it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation. People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted. | James Baldwin | ||
| 27952e2 | Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie | curran kate | Ilona Andrews | |
| 1d11b59 | He crushed me against the wall, bracing me with his body. I strained, trying to break free. He might have been made of stone for all the good it did me. Except he was made of flesh and he was stark naked. I strained every muscle I had. Nothing. Outmuscling him was beyond me. "Feel better?" he inquired. "Lean over to the left, Your Majesty." "Want a shot at my jugular with your teeth?" He leaned to the right, exposing his thick neck. "Caroti.. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6d91a75 | Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument. | Robert Cormier | ||
| e9c6e9a | I have always pondered a tragic law of adolescence. (On second thought, the law probably applies to all ages to some extent). That law: People fall in love at the same time--often at the same stunning moment--but they fall out of love at different times. One is left sadly juggling the pieces of a fractured heart while the other has danced away. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 5fe95ea | Angry at his parents and all grown-ups who thought that school life was a lark, a good time, the best years of your life with a few test and quizzes thrown in to keep you on your toes. Bullshit. There was nothing good about it. Tests were daily battles in the larger war of school. School meant rules and orders and commands. To say nothing of homework. | Robert Cormier | ||
| 65db2d2 | He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed. | high-school | Robert Cormier | |
| 19abc1d | Saved by the Sith. | Ilona Andrews | ||
| 6d84fd0 | I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid. | fear expectation | Ralph Ellison | |
| cdd0e77 | she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some unknown which I dared not face. It was a most painful position for at the same time Mary reminded me constantly that something was expected of me, some act of leadership, some newsworthy achievement;... | racism don-t-give-up speak-out change-the-world revolution | Ralph Ellison | |
| ff92ba3 | Play the game, but play it your own way - part of the time at least. Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| f6d3cc3 | And let's remember that science isn't a game of chess, although chess may be played scientifically. The other thing to remember is that if we are to organize the masses we must first organize ourselves. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| f81ac28 | Not only could you travel upward toward success but you could travel downward as well; up and down, in retreat as well as in advance, crabways and crossways and around in a circle, meeting your old selves coming and going and perhaps all at the same time. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 42e0f3e | But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| fd96c5a | And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love. I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man - but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. So I approach it through division so I denounce and I defend and I hate and I love. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| 2d26c83 | How hard is it to portray a three-dimensional woman of color on television or in film? I'm surrounded by them. They're my friends. I talk to them every day. How come Hollywood won't acknowledge us? Are we a joke to them? Now, having been in the industry for a couple of years, I'm not entirely sure it's blatant racism, as I had once assumed. It's more complicated than that. As Ralph Ellison once posited, we're invisible to them. We're simply.. | Issa Rae | ||
| 194f56d | Could he have meant--hell, he must have meant the principle, that we were to affirm the principle on which the country was built and not the men, or at least not the men who did the violence. Did he mean say "yes" because he knew that the principle was greater than the men, greater than the numbers and the vicious power and all the methods used to corrupt its name? Did he mean to affirm the principle, which they themselves had dreamed into .. | Ralph Ellison | ||
| d7f7445 | Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rushed for time, toward what end no one asked. Their cupidity and self-love were no worse than anyone else's, but their many experiences' having taught them so little irked Lou. One hated tourists, .. | human-nature | Annie Dillard | |
| 060661f | If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars wherof one might haply achieve her purpose. | Annie Dillard | ||
| 34c9044 | The rock I'd seen in my life looked dull because in all ignorance I'd never thought to knock it open. People have cracked ordinary New England pegmatite - big, coarse granite - and laid bare clusters of red garnets, or topaz crystals, chrysoberyl, spodumene, emerald. They held in their hands crystals that had hung in a hole in the dark for a billion years unseen. I was all for it. I would lay about me right and left with a hammer, and bash.. | discovery wonder rock-collecting rocks geology memoir | Annie Dillard | |
| 631383d | Children ten years old wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad? They wake like sleepwalkers, in full stride; they wake like people brought back from cardiac arrest or from drowning: , surrounded by familiar people and objects, equipped with a hundred skills. They know the neighborhood, they can read and write English, they are old hands at the commonplace mysteries, and yet they feel t.. | self consciousness childhood | Annie Dillard | |
| dd8f417 | I couldn't unpeach the peaches. | Annie Dillard |