Author: James Baldwin

Cites

• Traditional (1)
  • IN: Just Above My Head (1979) Fiction, Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: Work: For the Night is coming
    FROM: Work, for the Night Is Coming, (1864), ***Song, NULL
• Walt Whitman (1)
  • IN: Giovanni's Room (1956) Fiction, Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am the man; I suffered, I was there
    FROM: Song of Myself, (1892), Poem, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: The Fire Next Time (1962) Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: Down at the cross where my Saviour died, Down where for cleansing from sin I cried, There to my heart was the blood applied, Singing glory to His name!
    FROM: Hymn, (None), Song, NULL
• Henry James (1)
  • IN: Another Country (1963) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they probably form, collectively, the most unprecedented of monumnets; abysmal the mystery of what they think, what they feel, what they want, what they suppose themselves to be saying.
    FROM: Lady Barbarina The Siege of London an International Episode and Other Tales, (1922), Book, US/England
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: The Fire Next Time (1962) Essay, American
    EPIGRAPH: Take up the White Man's burden- Ye dare not stoop to less- Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness; By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your Gods and you.
    FROM: The White Man's Burden, (1899), Poem, UK

Cited by

• Dorothy Allison (1)
  • IN: Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: People pay for what they do, and still ore, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: By the lives they lead
    FROM: No Name in the Street, (1972), Book, US
• Rebecca Serle (1)
  • IN: The Edge of Falling (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Then perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
    FROM: Giovanni's Room, (1956), Novel, US
• Boris Fishman (1)
  • IN: Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The conquest of the physical world is not man's only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself.
    FROM: The Price of the Ticket, (1985), Book, US
• John Keene (1)
  • IN: Counternarratives (2015) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Perhaps, then, after all, we have no idea of what history is; or are in flight from the demon we have summoned.
    FROM: Just Above my Head, (1979), Novel, US
• Anna Quindlen (1)
  • IN: Miller's Valley (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
    FROM: Giovanni's Room, (1956), Novel, US
• Lucinda Rosenfeld (1)
  • IN: Glass (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live.
    FROM: The Fire Next Time, (1963), Book, US
• Jess Row (1)
  • IN: Your Face in Mine (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I suggest this: that in order to learn your name, you are going to have to learn mine.
    FROM: NULL, (1961), NULL, US
• Shyam Selvadurai (1)
  • IN: Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (2005) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great diifficulty is to say Yes to live.
    FROM: Giovanni's Room, (1956), Novel, US
• Roland Merullo (1)
  • IN: Dinner with Buddha (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: 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, (1961), Book, US
• Val Emmich (1)
  • IN: The Reminders (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US