It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.
"James Arthur Baldwin" was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racism/racial, human sexuality/sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions. Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976).
Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks, but also of gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individuals' quests for acceptance. Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second novel, written well before gay equality was widely espoused in America: Giovanni's Room (1956). Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (novel)/Go Tell It on the Mountain, is said to be his best-known work.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous educators! More James Baldwin on Wikipedia.Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up.
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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