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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

James Baldwin

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Affliction Crutch Desire Frightened Release
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
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
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
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
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
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
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
It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
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
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time
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
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason

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