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James Baldwin

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.
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Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
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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
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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Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Book One Liner Wonder World
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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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
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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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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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
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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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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