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

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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History
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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

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Charity
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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Listening
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Other Quotes from
Anger
category

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. – Matthew Prior

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Anger

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the publics whipsawing stages of acceptance. – Ron Fournier

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Anger

Angers not a good emotion. – Lincoln Chafee

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Anger

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger. – Joanna Southcott

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Anger

Random Quotes

In a recent Valentines Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that – oh, who cares? – Amy Poehler

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valentinesday

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers

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Science

People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you arent here to enjoy them, what good do they do? – Eric Davis

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Money

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. Theyre free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. – Jesse Jackson

Category:
Freedom