People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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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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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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Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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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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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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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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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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