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«The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
black people
«The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
armed, conquest, dominance, motion, nightmare, sexual, sexual love, totally
«The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in»
«The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
containing, invested, invested with, mysteries, torment
«There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
dealing, dreadful, flees, going under
«Not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
multitudes, oddest, perished, perishing
«The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
engulf, engulfed, engulfs, goes out, The Sea
«When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
comes out, first book, the book
«But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.»
«The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.»
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