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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.

James Baldwin

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Inspirational Interrupt Sky
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWIN

Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
JAMES BALDWIN

Debased Life Love One Liner
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Confession Oblique One Liner
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Black Lives Matter Education White
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
JAMES BALDWIN

Circumstances History Myself Time
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
People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
JAMES BALDWIN

Disappointment Hurt Limb Love Mercy People
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWIN

Mirror People Person Truth
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
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
If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
JAMES BALDWIN

Allow Citizen Destroy Permit Portion Society
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
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
JAMES BALDWIN

Colour Human Naked Sex
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN

Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
JAMES BALDWIN

Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.

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