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 quote I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin quote I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
James Baldwin quote It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
James Baldwin quote Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin quote 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 quote Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin quote Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James Baldwin quote Biography
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