James Arthur Baldwin frasi celebri
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 Arthur Baldwin: Frasi in inglese
“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
James Baldwin libro The Fire Next Time
Origine: The Fire Next Time
“The impossible is the least that one can demand.”
James Baldwin libro The Fire Next Time
Origine: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin libro This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
Origine: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
James Baldwin If Beale Street Could Talk
Origine: If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin libro Just Above My Head
Origine: Just Above My Head
James Baldwin libro The Fire Next Time
Origine: The Fire Next Time
Origine: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
“For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
James Baldwin libro Giovanni's Room
Origine: Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin libro Nobody Knows My Name
Origine: Nobody Knows My Name
“With everything in me screaming No! yet the sum of me sighed Yes.”
James Baldwin libro Giovanni's Room
Origine: Giovanni's Room
“Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head”
Variante: Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it
James Baldwin libro Go Tell It on the Mountain
Origine: Go Tell It on the Mountain
which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it. On the other hand, it is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important. So that any writer, looking back over even so short a span of time as I am here forced to assess, finds that the things which hurt him and the things which helped him cannot be divorced from each other; he could be helped in a certain way only because he was hurt in a certain way; and his help is simply to be enabled to move from one conundrum to the next — one is tempted to say that he moves from one disaster to the next.
Autobiographical Notes (1952)
Origine: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
James Baldwin libro Giovanni's Room
Origine: Giovanni's Room
