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James Baldwin and Margaret Mead on Reimagining Democracy for a Post-Consumerist Culture
“Democracy should not mean the leveling of everyone to the lowest common denominator. It should mean the possibility of everyone being able to raise himself to a certain level of excellence.”
Margaret Mead and James Baldwin on Identity, Race, the Immigrant Experience, and Why the “Melting Pot” Is a Problematic Metaphor
“You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.”
James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”
The Art of Living with Wide-Open Consciousness: Alice James on Attentiveness as the Pulse-Beat of Art
“There are some people… who drive everywhere and admire nothing.”
Teenage James Joyce’s Beautiful Letter to Ibsen, His Great Hero
“We always keep the dearest things to ourselves.”
Change the Narrative, Change Your Destiny: How James Baldwin Read His Way from Harlem to the Literary Pantheon
“You’re playing the game according to somebody else’s rules, and you can’t win until you understand the rules and step out of that particular game, which is not, after all, worth playing.”
A Rap on Race: Margaret Mead and James Baldwin’s Forgotten Conversation about Forgiveness and the Difference Between Guilt and Responsibility
“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.”
William James on Love
“If it comes, it comes; if it does not come, no process of reasoning can force it. Yet it transforms the value of the creature loved.”
William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and What Enables Us to Transcend Our Limits
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake… We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.”
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