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Literature is indispensable to the world.

James Baldwin

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
You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Black Black Lives Matter Born Emotional Face Reason Sad
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.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
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
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
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
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
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
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
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Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
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
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
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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Courage Inspirational Leave Life World
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
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Consicious I Love You Love Lover Role

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