Quote by James Baldwin
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

Category:
Humanity
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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

Category:
Perspective
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Society
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Other Quotes from
Anger
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Anger

So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again. – Rosalind Wiseman

Category:
Anger

When I get mad, I stop being mad and be awesome instead. – Author Unknown

Category:
Anger

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time Id already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment. – David Soul

Category:
Anger

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