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Love was a country he knew nothing about.

James Baldwin

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
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
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Courage Inspirational Leave Life World
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Bread Float Human People Poison Surprise Water
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
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
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
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Beautiful History Terrible
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
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

Love was a country he knew nothing about.

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