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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

James Baldwin

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
JAMES BALDWIN

Born Change Inspirational Shock State
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
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
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Enemy Ferocious Ignorance Justice Power
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
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
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Alive Connect People Teaching
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
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
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
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Concept God Love Religion Time Validity
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
JAMES BALDWIN

Cruel Death Die Live Love

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 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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