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James Baldwin

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
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
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Friendship Invent Love Lover Parents People Unhappiness
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Alive Connect People Teaching
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
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
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
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 a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Allow Citizen Destroy Permit Portion Society
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Beautiful History Terrible
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
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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Black Black Lives Matter Education White
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
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
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
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 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
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
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
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Bread Float Human People Poison Surprise Water

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