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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.

James Baldwin

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
JAMES BALDWIN

Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWIN

Country Humour Love One Liner
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWIN

History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
JAMES BALDWIN

Arrive People Perpetual World
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWIN

Light People Treat Trust
If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Citizen Destroy Permit Portion Society
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Alive Connect People Teaching
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Situation Threat Victim Women

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