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 BALDWINColour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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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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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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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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