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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.

James Baldwin

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
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
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
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
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
The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.
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Business Entrepreneur Exist Inspirational One Liner Place
Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Individual Inspirational Journey Life One Liner Positive
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
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
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 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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role

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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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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