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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

James Baldwin

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
JAMES BALDWIN

Happen History Million Past People
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.
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Beginning Conscience Development Society War Yourself
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
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
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
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
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
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
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
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
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
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Children Inspirational Pay Profit
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

According Change People Person Reality World

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