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
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.