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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.

James Baldwin

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
JAMES BALDWIN

Situation Threat Victim Women
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
JAMES BALDWIN

Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
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
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
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Demand Hustle Impossible Inspirational One Liner
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
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
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
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 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
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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Blind Fear Indifference Love One Liner Terror
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
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

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