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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.

James Baldwin

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
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
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
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Enemy Ferocious Ignorance Justice Power
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
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
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
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
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
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
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
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
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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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