Amiri Baraka Quotes

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.

You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.

A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.