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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James Baldwin

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.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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Deep Insult One Liner Person Respect Treat
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Disappointment Hurt Limb Love Mercy 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
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
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
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
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
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Art Force Reality Represent
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
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
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

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

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