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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

James Baldwin

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Cease Each Other Hold Light Moments Sea
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Breakup World Change Identity Real Safety
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
JAMES BALDWIN

Pain People Suffering
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
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Bread Effort Force Life Love Present Rejoice Respect Sensual
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual World
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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Challenge Change Face Inspirational Life Success
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
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
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Coward Fools Man People Truth
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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History Hurt One Liner Past People Trapped
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN

Art Hide Purpose

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