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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.

James Baldwin

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWIN

Black Black Lives Matter Education White
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
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According Change People Person Reality World
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
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.
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Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Book Pain Read
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.
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Pain People Suffering
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
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
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
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
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
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

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