Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWINI imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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