Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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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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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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.
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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.
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