Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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I 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.
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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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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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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.
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