Frases de James Baldwin
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James Baldwin fue un escritor y activista por los derechos civiles afroestadounidense. Su novela más conocida es Ve y dilo en la montaña.

Los temas principales de la obra de Baldwin son el racismo y la sexualidad en los Estados Unidos de mediados del siglo XX. Sus novelas exploran de un modo personal los temas de la identidad colectiva, y ponen en solfa las presiones sociales hacia los colectivos de los negros y los homosexuales, mucho antes de que la igualdad social, cultural y política de estos grupos se hubiera logrado en su país Wikipedia  

✵ 2. agosto 1924 – 1. diciembre 1987   •   Otros nombres Џејмс Болдвин, Джеймс Болдуїн
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Frases célebres de James Baldwin

“No puede cambiarse todo aquello a lo que te enfrentas, pero nada puede ser cambiado hasta que te enfrentas a ello.”

Original: «Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can he changed until it is faced».
Fuente: Thnay, Vincent. Abc of Quotes. Editorial Lulu Press, Inc, 2015. ISBN 9781329684645. https://books.google.es/books?id=LpkFCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT24&dq=You+can+not+change+everything+you+face,+but+nothing+can+be+changed+until+you+face+it.+James+Baldwin&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLuOSf8dngAhURxoUKHSDbD30Q6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=You%20can%20not%20change%20everything%20you%20face%2C%20but%20nothing%20can%20be%20changed%20until%20you%20face%20it.%20James%20Baldwin&f=false

“Por encima del talento están los valores comunes: disciplina, amor, buena suerte, pero, sobre todo, tenacidad.”

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

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“Los niños nunca han sido muy buenos escuchando a sus mayores, pero nunca han dejado de imitarlos.”

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

“Crees que tu dolor y tu angustia no tienen precedentes en la historia del mundo, pero luego lees. Fueron los libros los que me enseñaron que las cosas que más me atormentaban eran las mismas que me conectaban con todas las personas que estaban vivas, que habían estado vivas.”

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

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“Me imagino que una de las razones por las que las personas se aferran a sus odios tan obstinadamente es porque sienten que, una vez que el odio se haya ido, se verán obligados a lidiar con el dolor.”

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

“El amor no comienza y termina como parece que pensamos que lo hace. El amor es una batalla, el amor es una guerra; el amor es crecer.”

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

James Baldwin: Frases en inglés

“The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.”

James Baldwin libro Notes of a Native Son

Stranger in the Village http://harpers.org/archive/1953/10/stranger-in-the-village/ Harper's Magazine (October 1953); republished in Notes of a Native Son http://books.google.com/books?id=B0N2AAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+betrayal+of+a+belief+is+not+the+same+thing+as+ceasing+to+believe+If+this+were+not+so+there+would+be+no+moral+standards+in+the+world+at+all%22&pg=PA171#v=onepage (1955)

“Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.”

"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)

“If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.”

James Baldwin libro The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time http://books.google.com/books?id=0S9TgXJ-aD0C&q=%22If+the+word+integration+means+anything+this+is+what+it+means+that+we+with+love+shall+force+our+brothers+to+see+themselves+as+they+are+to+cease+fleeing+from+reality+and+begin%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage (1963)

“At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.”

"A Negro Assays on the Negro Mood," The New York Times, 12 March 1961, published in book form as "East River, Downtown: Postscript to a Letter from Harlem" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”

"In Search of a Majority" address delivered at Kalamazoo College (February 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)

“When the South has trouble with its Negroes — when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" — it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.”

As quoted in "Trapped Inside James Baldwin" by Michael Anderson http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/reviews/980329.29anderst.html, a review of Baldwin's Collected Essays in The New York Times (29 March 1998)

“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker, and so you can stand less and less.”

James Baldwin libro Giovanni's Room

Pt. 2, Ch. 3 - p.97
Giovanni's Room (1956)

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