Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINThe world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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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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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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