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

James Baldwin

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Intimate Knowledge Pay Price Profession Pursue Ugly
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
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
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Coward Fools Man People 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
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Alive Connect People Teaching
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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Beginning Consicious Education Paradox Society
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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Distrustful Education Freedom Impossible Independence Mind Person
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
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
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society

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

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