BALDWIN, JAMES : I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates and anger so stubbornly is becausethey sense, once hate or anger is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

BALDWIN, JAMES : I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates and anger so stubbornly is becausethey sense, once hate or anger is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

BALDWIN, JAMES : Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

BALDWIN, JAMES : Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

BALDWIN, JAMES : The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

BALDWIN, JAMES : This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

BALDWIN, JAMES : 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, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)