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

James Baldwin

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
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
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
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
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
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
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Pain People Suffering
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
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
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Lead Life Live Pay People
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Confession Oblique One Liner

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

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