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

James Baldwin

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Inspirational Pay Profit
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Deakness Deep Healing Life Walk Whistle
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Cruel Death Die Live Love
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Affliction Crutch Desire Frightened Release
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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According Change People Person Reality World
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Goodness Honesty Man One Liner Self Love Writing
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself

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