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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Baldwin

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
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
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
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
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
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
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
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
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
Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Individual Inspirational Journey Life One Liner Positive
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
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
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

The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

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