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
When the South has trouble with its Negroes when the Negroes refuse to remain in their "place" it blames "outside agitators" and "Northern interference." When the nation has trouble with the Northern Negro, it blames the Kremlin.
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
If all you want to do is make money, the very last thing you need is imagination.
You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!
Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.
After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.
All of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.
Employment is my right my destiny.
You write in order to change the world.