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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

James Baldwin

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
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
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
Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Humour One Liner Reality Time Worst Youth
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Demand Hustle Impossible Inspirational One Liner
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Bread Float Human People Poison Surprise Water
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
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Change People Reality World Writing
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
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
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

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