Frases de James Baldwin

Fuente: Chavarría, María Ángeles. Búsqueda y desarrollo del talento: La genialidad de lo imperfecto. ESIC Editorial, 2016. ISBN 9788416701216, p. 148. https://books.google.es/books?id=e2lRDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA148&dq=Por+encima+del+talento+est%C3%A1n+los+valores+comunes:+disciplina,+amor,+buena+suerte,+pero,+sobre+todo,+tenacidad.+James+Baldwin&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7rO258NngAhWqxIUKHZK-AFsQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Por%20encima%20del%20talento%20est%C3%A1n%20los%20valores%20comunes%3A%20disciplina%2C%20amor%2C%20buena%20suerte%2C%20pero%2C%20sobre%20todo%2C%20tenacidad.%20James%20Baldwin&f=false

Original: «Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them».
Fuente: Shaw Crouse, Janice. Children at Risk: The Precarious State of Children's Well-Being in America. Editorial Transaction Publishers, 2011. ISBN 9781412815192, p. 165. https://books.google.es/books?id=OrVycYAb-U0C&pg=PA165&dq=Children+have+never+been+very+good+at+listening+to+their+elders,+but+they+have+never+failed+to+imitate+them&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifrYPB99ngAhX0XRUIHchFBLMQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=Children%20have%20never%20been%20very%20good%20at%20listening%20to%20their%20elders%2C%20but%20they%20have%20never%20failed%20to%20imitate%20them&f=false

Original: «You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive».
Fuente: Nafisi, Azar. The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books. Editorial Penguin, 2014. ISBN 9780698170339. https://books.google.es/books?id=8jNBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8&dq=Penguin,+2014+ISBN%090698170334,+9780698170339&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTm-P08tngAhWM34UKHWFwAVoQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=You%20think%20your%20pain%20and%20your%20heartbreak%20are%20unprecedented%20in%20the%20history%20&f=false

Original: «I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain».
Fuente: Safransky, Sy. Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations. Edición ilustrada. Editorial North Atlantic Books, 1990. ISBN 9781556430459, p. 91. https://books.google.es/books?id=A5NiEt9h2AIC&pg=PA91&dq=I+imagine+one+of+the+reasons+people+cling+to+their+hates+so+stubbornly+is+because+they+sense,+once+hate+is+gone,+they+will+be+forced+to+deal+with+pain&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIvZ32-NngAhVKxxoKHU-BC3kQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=I%20imagine%20one%20of%20the%20reasons%20people%20cling%20to%20their%20hates%20so%20stubbornly%20is%20because%20they%20sense%2C%20once%20hate%20is%20gone%2C%20they%20will%20be%20forced%20to%20deal%20with%20pain&f=false

Original: «Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up».
Fuente: Kumar, M. Dictionary of Quotations. Editorial APH Publishing, 2008. ISBN 9788131304259. https://books.google.es/books?id=N0VKD37eY94C&pg=PA136&dq=Love+does+not+begin+and+end+the+way+we+seem+to+think+it+does.+Love+is+a+battle,+love+is+a+war;+love+is+a+growing+up.+James+Baldwin&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY17uU9NngAhUrQxUIHQFUDx4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Love%20does%20not%20begin%20and%20end%20the%20way%20we%20seem%20to%20think%20it%20does.%20Love%20is%20a%20battle%2C%20love%20is%20a%20war%3B%20love%20is%20a%20growing%20up.%20James%20Baldwin&f=false

"Me and My House" in Harper's (November 1955); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Fuente: The Fire Next Time

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)

Fuente: Giovanni's Room

"As Much Truth As One Can Bear" in The New York Times Book Review (14 January 1962); republished in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings (2011), edited by Randall Kenan<!-- , also quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 114 -->
Contexto: Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Interview with Julius Lester, "James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-reflections.html in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
Contexto: Perhaps I did not succumb to ideology … because I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you wonder what in the world the truth is, but you do know what a lie is.

"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" in Esquire (July 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

Fuente: If Beale Street Could Talk

Fuente: nothing personal

"Letter from a Region of My Mind" in The New Yorker (17 November 1962); republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in The Fire Next Time (1963)

From Nothing Personal, a collaboration with the photographer Richard Avedon (1964). Baldwin's text for the volume can be found " here https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=cibs".
Contexto: One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found - and it is found in terrible places. … For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

"Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-antisem.html in The New York Times (9 April 1967)
Contexto: It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either. People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression.

No Name in the Street (1972)

Fuente: "Letter from a Region of My Mind" in The New Yorker (17 November 1962); republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in The Fire Next Time (1963)
Contexto: 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.

Fuente: The Fire Next Time

Fuente: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Fuente: Giovanni's Room

"If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-english.html in "The New York Times (29 July 1979)

"Letter from a Region of My Mind" in The New Yorker (17 November 1962); republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in The Fire Next Time (1963)

As quoted in "James Baldwin Back Home" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-home.html by Robert Coles in The New York Times (31 July 1977)