Frases de James Baldwin

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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

Variante: To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
Fuente: The Fire Next Time

Fuente: The Fire Next Time

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
Variante: Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Fuente: Nobody Knows My Name

Fuente: Giovanni's Room

Fuente: The Fire Next Time

Fuente: Nobody Knows My Name

Fuente: Going to Meet the Man

Fuente: The Fire Next Time

Fuente: The Fire Next Time

Fuente: The Fire Next Time

Variante: I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
Fuente: Notes of a Native Son

Fuente: Nobody Knows My Name

Also appears in Jodi Picoult book Small Great Things
Fuente: In 1962 James Baldwin penned an essay titled “As Much Truth As One Can Bear” in “The New York Times Book Review”.
Contexto: We are the generation that must throw everything into the endeavor to remake America into what we say we want it to be. Without this endeavor, we will perish. ... Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Fuente: Another Country

Fuente: Sonny's Blues

Interview with Julius Lester, "James Baldwin: Reflections of a Maverick" in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
Variante: You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

"The Harlem Ghetto" in Commentary (February 1948); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)

Truce, by the way, is the best one can hope for.
Autobiographical Notes (1952)

Autobiographical Notes (1952)

"Stranger in the Village," Harper's (October 1953); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)

"The Hard Kind of Courage" in Harper's (October 1958) republished as "A Fly in Buttermilk" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

"The American Dream and the American Negro" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-dream.html in The New York Times (7 March 1965)