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.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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The 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.
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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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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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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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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.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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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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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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