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

James Baldwin

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

Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Black Lives Matter Education White
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Inspirational Interrupt Sky
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Happen History Million Past People
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN

DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
JAMES BALDWIN

Courage Inspirational Leave Life World
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
JAMES BALDWIN

Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
JAMES BALDWIN

Afford Confusion Luxury Possible Young Youth
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
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
JAMES BALDWIN

Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
JAMES BALDWIN

Forget Hero Madness Man Remember World
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWIN

Affliction Crutch Desire Frightened Release

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

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