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
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.
A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.