James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
James A. "Jim" Baldwinwas an American football player, track athlete, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Rhode Island State College—now the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina—now Duke University, Lehigh University, and Wake Forest University, compiling a career college football record of 41–32–14. Baldwin was also the head basketball coach at the same five schools, amassing a career college basketball...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 August 1924
CountryUnited States of America
James A. Baldwin quotes about
... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.
Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.
This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.
Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.
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.
I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read . The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy , and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.