The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
― James Baldwin
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From James Baldwin’s Nobody Knows My Name
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― James Baldwin, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
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Not because they recognized me, which was nice, but because they knew my name was just Ziwe.
Ziwe, from “nobody knows my name”
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Then, perhaps they imagine that their crimes are not crimes?
Perhaps.
Perhaps that is why they cannot repent,
Why there is no possibility of repentance.
James Baldwin, “Staggerlee Wonders”
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.
James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
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James Baldwin
Though we do not wholly believe it yet,
the interior life is a real life,
and the intangible dreams of people
have a tangible effect on the world.
From Nobody Knows My Name
Vintage, 1961.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
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Anyone who has ever struggles with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor
-James Baldwin, fifth avenue, uptown: a letter from Harlem
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[Nessuno sa il mio nome][James Baldwin]
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Titolo: Nessuno sa il mio nomeScritto da: James BaldwinTitolo originale: Nobody Knows My NameTradotto da: Giancarlo Cella e Vittorio Di GiuroEdito da: Fandango LibriAnno: 2024Pagine: 240ISBN: 9788860449696
Nessuno sa il mio nome è la seconda raccolta di saggi di James Baldwin pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1961 e scritta durante la sua permanenza in Europa,…
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