Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINHatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
JAMES BALDWINKnow from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
JAMES BALDWINTrust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
JAMES BALDWINThe artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
JAMES BALDWINThere is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
JAMES BALDWINLove 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 BALDWINPeople 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 BALDWINEveryone 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.
JAMES BALDWINNobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWINLove brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
JAMES BALDWINThere are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWINI 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 BALDWINThe paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
JAMES BALDWINPeople can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES BALDWINI want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWINPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES BALDWIN