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

James Baldwin

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.
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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
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
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 don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Disappointment Hurt Limb Love Mercy People
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
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
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
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
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’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
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
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 artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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Art Force Reality Represent
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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Earth Simplicity Sun Sunrise Sunset Time Tragic Turn
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.

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