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

James Baldwin

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
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role
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
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWIN

Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWIN

Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN

Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
JAMES BALDWIN

Light People Treat Trust
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
JAMES BALDWIN

Coward Fools Man People Truth
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
JAMES BALDWIN

Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWIN

Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change People Reality World Writing
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
JAMES BALDWIN

Home Leave Pain Suffering

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