James A. Baldwin Quotes About Hatred
-
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
→ -
Hatred destroys the person who hates.
→ -
People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.
→ -
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
→ -
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.
→ -
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
→ -
A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.
→
Related Authors
-
Gwendolyn Brooks Poet -
Richard Wright Author -
Toni Morrison Novelist -
Nikki Giovanni Writer -
Amiri Baraka Writer -
Margaret Mead Cultural Anthropologist -
Malcolm X Human rights activist -
Eldridge Cleaver Writer -
Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil rights activist -
Lorraine Hansberry Playwright -
Flannery O'Connor Writer -
Langston Hughes Poet -
Maya Angelou Author -
Ta-Nehisi Coates Writer -
Alice Walker Author -
Nina Simone Singer -
Henry James Writer -
Ralph Ellison Novelist -
W. E. B. Du Bois Historian -
Zora Neale Hurston Anthropologist