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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.

James Baldwin

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
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
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
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.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
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
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual 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
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
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Happen History Million Past People
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
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
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Art Artist Disturb One Liner Peace
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
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
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
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change People Reality World Writing
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
JAMES BALDWIN

Deakness Deep Healing Life Walk Whistle
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
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
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive

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