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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

James Baldwin

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
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
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
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
Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Home Leave Pain Suffering
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
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
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.
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Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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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
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

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