01c. 1955 ADWe take our shape it is true within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.James Baldwin / quote ↗
03c. 1955 ADWell,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New York — ’He was smiling. I stopped.‘What do you feel in New York?’ he asked.‘Perhaps you feel,’ I told him, ‘all the time to come. There’s such power there, everything is in such movement. You can’t help wondering—I can’t help wondering—what it will all be like—many years from now.James Baldwin / quote ↗
04c. 1955 ADIt’s a great city, Paris, a beautiful city––and––it was very good for me.James Baldwin / quote ↗
05c. 1955 ADAn identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.James Baldwin / quote ↗
06c. 1955 ADWe have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.James Baldwin / quote ↗
07c. 1955 ADThe South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.James Baldwin / quote ↗
08c. 1955 ADBut the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.James Baldwin / quote ↗
