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Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

James Baldwin

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
Literature is indispensable to the world.
JAMES BALDWIN

Indispensable Literature One Liner World
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Situation Threat Victim Women
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Lead Life Live Pay 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 purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Happen History Million Past People
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Black Black Lives Matter Education White
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

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