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

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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Change
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America
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He may be a very nice man. But I havent got the time to figure that out. All I know is, hes got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. Thats the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die. – James Baldwin

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Control
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Anger
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I guess lyrically theyre similar because theyre talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. The Last One Alive, for me, is very simple. Its just about alienation, really, that causes anger. – Jon Crosby

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Anger

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we cant do, fear or even disgust at growing old. – Rowan Williams

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Anger

Anything done in anger can be done better without it. – Dallas Willard

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Anger

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really dont have a good life. – Willie Mays

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Anger

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Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. – Roger Moore

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Home

Its absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I dont want to emulate that. – George Michael

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Success

In the general course of human nature, A power over a mans subsistence amounts to a power over his will. – Alexander Hamilton

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A scream is always just that – a noise and not music. – Carl Jung

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Music