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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

James Baldwin

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Happen History Million Past People
If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Attitude Insult One Liner Revenge Self Love Thinking
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
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
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
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
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
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Coward Fools Man People Truth
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Pain People Suffering
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
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

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

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