詹姆斯·鮑德溫
美國(guó)黑人作家
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
世界在你面前，你不需要接受它或離開它，就像你進(jìn)來(lái)時(shí)那樣。
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.
那些把別人當(dāng)作不如人類的人，當(dāng)他們投在水面上的面包毒化后漂回來(lái)時(shí)，不應(yīng)感到驚訝。
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
自由不是任何人可以給予的東西。自由是人們奪取的，人們有多想要自由，就有多自由。
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
追求任何職業(yè)或使命的代價(jià)是對(duì)其丑陋面的深入了解。
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
你認(rèn)為你的痛苦和心碎在世界歷史上前所未有，但后來(lái)你閱讀了。
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
孩子們從來(lái)都不太擅長(zhǎng)聽長(zhǎng)輩的話，但他們從未停止模仿長(zhǎng)輩。
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
任何社會(huì)中最危險(xiǎn)的創(chuàng)造物是那些沒(méi)有什么可失去的人。
People can cry much easier than they can change.
人們哭泣比改變要容易得多。
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
愛(ài)并不像我們想象的那樣開始和結(jié)束。愛(ài)是一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)斗，愛(ài)是一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)；愛(ài)是成長(zhǎng)的過(guò)程。
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
不是所有面對(duì)的事情都能改變，但在面對(duì)之前，什么都不會(huì)改變。
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