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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

James Baldwin

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Individual Inspirational Journey Life One Liner Positive
If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Deep Insult One Liner Person Respect Treat
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
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
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
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
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
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
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
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

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