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…

Quote by James Arthur Baldwin

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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody,...

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot...

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot...

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is...

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and...

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and...

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your...

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your...

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

Love is a beggar who stills begs when one has given him everything

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of...

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love...

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets,...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets,...

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life,...

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so...

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so...

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a...

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a...