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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.

James Baldwin

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
JAMES BALDWIN

Attachment Condition Home One Liner Peace Place
I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
JAMES BALDWIN

Believe Inspirational Judgement One Liner Success
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
JAMES BALDWIN

Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for what they become.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Inspirational Pay Profit
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES BALDWIN

Expensive Life Poverty Struggle
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
JAMES BALDWIN

Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
JAMES BALDWIN

Curosity Passion Peace Try Writing
You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Change People Reality World Writing
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
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
JAMES BALDWIN

Mirror People Person Truth
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Situation Threat Victim Women
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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
JAMES BALDWIN

Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
JAMES BALDWIN

Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
JAMES BALDWIN

Hatred Heaven People Silence
Love was a country he knew nothing about.
JAMES BALDWIN

Country Humour Love One Liner

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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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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