James A. Baldwin Quotes - Page 16

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• A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

  James A. Baldwin

  Ghetto, Cities, Way

  "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" by James A. Baldwin, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2007.

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• These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.

  James A. Baldwin

  Growing Up, Boys, Two

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• He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger. Strangers' faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Imagination, Forever, Secret

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• Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

  James A. Baldwin

  Anger, Argument, Rage

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• Employment is my right my destiny.

  James A. Baldwin

  Destiny, Employment, My Destiny

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