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Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

James Baldwin

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN

Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Situation Threat Victim Women
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
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
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
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Demand Hustle Impossible Inspirational One Liner
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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
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
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Absolute Desolation Fear One Liner Splendor
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Art Force Reality Represent
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role
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
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

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

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