Frasi di James Arthur Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin
Data di nascita: 2. Agosto 1924
Data di morte: 1. Dicembre 1987
Altri nomi: Џејмс Болдвин, Джеймс Болдуїн
James Arthur Baldwin è stato uno scrittore statunitense.
Frasi James Arthur Baldwin
Origine: Dal discorso alla Cambridge Union, 17 febbraio 1965; citato in Elena Spagnol, Citazioni, Garzanti, 2003.
„Il futuro è come il paradiso – tutti lo esaltano ma nessuno ci vuole andare adesso.“
Origine: Da Nessuno sa il mio nome.
Origine: Da Nessuno sa il mio nome-
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 227. ISBN 9788858022900
— James Baldwin, libro Nobody Knows My Name
"In Search of a Majority: An Address" (Feb 1960); reprinted in Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_Knows_My_Name (1961)
„Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.“
— James Baldwin, libro Giovanni's Room
Origine: Giovanni's Room
— James Baldwin, libro The Fire Next Time
"Me and My House" in Harper's (November 1955); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Origine: The Fire Next Time
— James Baldwin, libro Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Origine: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
„Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.“
"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 -->
Contesto: 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.
„Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.“
"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" in Esquire (July 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
