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 BALDWINPeople don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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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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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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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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.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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