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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.

James Baldwin

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
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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Absolute Desolation Fear One Liner Splendor
Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Individual Inspirational Journey Life One Liner Positive
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
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
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
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
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
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual World
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
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Mirror People Person Truth
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Confession Oblique One Liner
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
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Change People Reality World Writing

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