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The impossible is the least that one can demand.

James Baldwin

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
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
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
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
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Book One Liner Wonder World
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
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
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
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
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
You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
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
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
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

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

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