Quote #46

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is battle, love is a war; love is growing up.

More from James Baldwin

  1. Life is more important than art, that's what makes art important.
  2. Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
  3. In Boston, when they shit on you, they hand you a towel - so that you can can wipe their ass.
  4. People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to t…
  5. Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to trans…
  6. Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contemp…
  7. When the South has trouble with its Negroes - when the Negroes refuse to remain in their 'place' - it blames 'outside agitators' and 'North…
  8. We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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