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Love was a country he knew nothing about.

James Baldwin

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

Beat Blood Inspirational Life Live Positive
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.
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According Change People Person Reality World
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Bread Float Human People Poison Surprise Water
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
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
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
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Art Hide Purpose
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
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Hatred Heaven People Silence
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
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
No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Deep Devil Human Man Mind One Liner
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hear Listen Music One Liner People

Love was a country he knew nothing about.

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