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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

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.
JAMES BALDWIN

Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
People can cry much easier than they can change.
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Change Cry Funny Human Nature One Liner People
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Human Imagination People Purity
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
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

Destroy Fever Hurt Life Love Lovers Mistake Passion Rebel True
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
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Destroy Failure Hate Hatred Law Man
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
Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.
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Hatred Negativity One Liner Suicide
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
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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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
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique.
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Art Confession Oblique One Liner
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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