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

James Baldwin

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
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 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
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 I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Attitude Insult One Liner Revenge Self Love Thinking
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
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
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
Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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Deakness Deep Healing Life Walk Whistle
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
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
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
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
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
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.
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Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety

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