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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.

James Baldwin

The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
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
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
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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Cruel Death Die Live Love
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
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
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
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
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
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
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
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success

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