You lose a lot of time, hating people.

The line frames hatred as a self-inflicted cost: it consumes attention and emotional energy without producing anything constructive. Read against Anderson’s public life—marked by encounters with racism and exclusion—it suggests a hard-won ethic of conserving one’s inner resources for work, dignity, and forward motion rather than letting resentment dictate one’s days. The quote does not deny injustice; instead it emphasizes agency over one’s response, implying that hatred binds the hater to the very people or systems they oppose. Its moral force lies in its practicality: hatred is not only corrosive, it is inefficient.