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
Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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
Not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break forth from one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out
The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.