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James Baldwin

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
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
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
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
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
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
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
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
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
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Forget Hero Madness Man Remember 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
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
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People

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