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

James Baldwin

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
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
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
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.
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Happen History Million Past People
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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Acceptance Black Black Lives Matter Power Refuse White World
Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Born Cease Generation Responsible Witness
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Affliction Crutch Desire Frightened Release
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Deal Fear Hate Imagination Pain People Reason
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
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
Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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Healing Inspirational Love Panic Trust
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
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
Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Debased Life Love One Liner
The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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Demand Hustle Impossible Inspirational One Liner
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

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