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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

James Baldwin

If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Allow Citizen Destroy Permit Portion Society
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Mirror People Person Truth
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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Country Humour Love One Liner
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
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
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
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 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
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
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.
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Situation Threat Victim Women
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Indispensable Literature One Liner World
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
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
People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Friendship Invent Love Lover Parents People Unhappiness

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